Shri Johnny G. Plate, Minister of Information and Technology, Govt. of Indonesia, said the 2024 General Election (Election) will be a momentous opportunity to produce Indonesia’s future leaders with a commitment to digitising Indonesia. According to the Minister, digitalisation in elections is very possible because many countries have started implementing e-voting. Through free, fair and secure online voting, as well as through an e-vote system or internet voting. Estonia has been doing it since 2005 and it has a digital electoral system at the city, state and EU level which is used by 46.7% of the population. So it’s not new, including the KPU. It has been prepared for a long time. Citing data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Minister stated that the stages of electronic voting or e-Voting have been used in 34 countries in the world, carried out in various forms and levels. The implementation of e-Voting involves election management bodies or electoral management boards at the national and sub-national scales, such as the election of members of the regional legislature. The important thing to pay attention to is not only the digital process. However, it is more about the community’s readiness to maintain the level of trust in every stage of the election, including during data verification and re-verification.
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From April 2022 • Informatics, National Informatics Centre