Over 50,000 ballots for Indonesian Presidential Election counted in Kuching
KUCHING: Over 50,000 votes for the final phase of the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election were counted at the Penview Convention Centre here yesterday.
Indonesian Consul-General in Kuching Raden Sigit Witjaksono said the counting process here was scheduled to end by 7pm (6pm Jakarta time).
He said the presidential election is being held simultaneously with the General Election of Members of the House of Representatives (DPR), the District House of Representatives (DPD), and the District House of Representatives (DPRD).
There are 64,900 fixed voters across nine divisions in Sarawak.
“We will be expecting to count more than 50,000 ballots due to the high number of participation rate of around 80 per cent,” Raden said when met at the convention centre yesterday.
He explained that the Indonesian voters in Sarawak had exercised their voting rights through mobile ballot boxes across the state as well as fixed ballot boxes at the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Kuching between Feb 4 and 11.
“Today is our final process for vote counting, final stage of all the election process,” Raden said.
He said the counting of votes began simultaneously in Jakarta together with all consulate general offices, including in Johor Bahru and Kota Kinabalu.
The counting of votes here will be carried out by more than 650 officials.
He added the results from Kuching will be reported to Jakarta where the announcement of results will be made.
Meanwhile, Bernama reported that quick counts by leading pollsters last night showed presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to be the likely winner a er securing about 58 per cent of the votes from the 90 per cent of votes counted.
The official results will be released by Indonesia’s National Election Commission in mid-March.