Medan, N Sumatra – The General Elections Commission (KPU), Medan office, discovered 3,388 harmed ballot papers during the arranging process, which happened from November 17 to November 21, 2020, at the Andromeda Building, Polonia community, Medan city.
The harmed tally documents will be ruined and replaced with 3,388 freshly-printed ones, Rinaldi Khair from the KPU-Medan office informed journalists here on Monday.
The printing procedure would take one day, he said, adding that the KPU-Medan office will substitute any more tally documents that are found damaged.
The Medan city mayoral election, arranged on December 9, 2020, will be contested by candidate pair number 02, Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution-Aulia Rachman, and candidate pair number 01, Akhyar Nasution-Salman Alfarisi.
According to Khair, the circulation of ballot papers to all polling stations in the city would take five days, while the arranging process would require 2 days.
In view of the continued spread of the novel coronavirus disease, President Joko Widodo has once again prompted the home minister, authorities chief, and COVID-19 job force to prioritize COVID-19 handling on voting day.
” Less than 2 weeks from now, the voting day will have occurred. This need to not disrupt our huge efforts to manage the novel coronavirus pandemic and to recover our economy,” he specified at a meeting in Jakarta on Monday.
President Widodo has actually likewise highlighted the importance of strictly executing the government’s health protocols during the staying days of marketing and on voting day to prevent the emergence of brand-new COVID-19 clusters.
COVID-19 initially struck the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019 and spread throughout the world, including to nations in the Asia-Pacific region.
Indonesia officially announced the country’s very first verified cases on March 2 this year.
The Indonesian federal government has actually consistently revealed confidence in the potential of COVID-19 vaccines for helping win the battle versus the COVID-19 pandemic that has actually presented a serious hazard to public health and the economy.
Over the past few months, the government has actually made full-scale efforts to protect prospective COVID-19 vaccines for Indonesians through bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
The federal government is also supporting research efforts towards developing the nation’s own COVID-19 vaccine, Merah Putih (Red and White), named after the colors of the nationwide flag.
In addition, Indonesia is working together with China and the United Kingdom for the procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccine prospects. (INE)
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