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Ten days after the world's largest elections in Indonesia, more than 270 election workers died, mainly as a result of a fatigue-related illness caused by long working hours involving several million newsletters. vote, said Sunday a manager.
The elections of April 17 were the first time that the country of 260 million people badociated the presidential vote with national and regional parliamentary elections in order to reduce costs.
The elections were largely peaceful and would have gathered 80% of the 193 million voters, who each had to vote up to five ballots in more than 800,000 polling stations.
However, an eight-hour vote in a country stretching more than 5,000 km from its western to eastern ends proved to be a deadly and lethal logistical feat for officials, who had to count the ballots. voting by hand.
As of Saturday night, 272 election officials had died, mostly from overwork-related illnesses, while another 1,878 had fallen ill, said Arief Priyo Susanto, spokesman for the General Election Commission (KPU).
On April 23, the Ministry of Health issued a circular letter urging health facilities to take the utmost care of sick election staff, while the Ministry of Finance is working to compensate the families of the deceased, added Susanto.
The KPU has been targeted because of the growing number of deaths.
"The KPU is not cautious in managing the workload of staff," said Ahmad Muzani, vice president of the presidential candidate's campaign, Prabowo Subianto, reported by the Kumparan.com information site.
Prabowo, who according to independent pollsters is the loser of the 2019 elections on the basis of quick accounts, reportedly accused of widespread cheating and his campaign claimed that some officials had conducted ballots in favor of outgoing President Joko Widodo. Widodo's security minister said the allegations were unfounded.
Both candidates declared victory, although quick accounts suggest that Widodo won the election of about 9 to 10 percentage points.
The KPU will close the count of votes and announce the winners of the presidential and legislative elections of May 22.
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