Historical account of votes on 272 deceased officials – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

At least 272 officials died and 1,878 others became ill, mainly because of exhaustion-related illnesses, due to long hours of manual vote-counting after the general elections held in Indonesia on April 17 , according to the report. On Sunday, the spokesman of the General Election Commission (KPU), Arief Priyo Susanto, quoted by Reuters.

In order to reduce costs, for the first time in the history of Indonesia, national and regional presidential and parliamentary elections were held simultaneously. what turned these single-day elections into the majors of the world.

The elections drew 80% of the 193 million voters, each of whom had to vote up to five times in one of the more than 800,000 polling stations.

According to different estimates, 6 to 7 million people worked day and night in inadequate conditions monitor the elections and calculate the votes.

On Tuesday, the Indonesian Ministry of Health urged hospitals to they will pay maximum attention to sick civil servants, while the Ministry of Finance has confirmed that compensation will be paid to the families of the deceased and hospitalized.

The electoral commission has been criticized for having acted negligently. "The KPU is not careful in managing the workload of the staff," said Ahmad Muzani, vice president of the opposition candidate's campaign to the presidential Prabowo Subianto, quoted by the Kumparan site.

The final results of the presidential and parliamentary elections will be announced on May 22nd.