"We have received the election vulnerability index. There are 16 regions. We have mapped them out in cooperation with the Police," the TNI Commander stated, after chairing a leadership meeting of TNI at the TNI Headquarters in Cilangkap, East Jakarta, on Thursday.
The 16 regions include Sulawesi, and TNI will deploy more military officers there, he noted.
He stated that TNI and the Indonesian Police (Polri) will continue to carry a synergy in order to make the upcoming simultaneous legislative and presidential elections successful, peaceful, and safe.
The three-day meeting of TNI and Polri leadership meeting was officially opened by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the State Palace.
Indonesia will organize simultaneous legislative elections and presidential elections on April 17, 2019.
The 2019 presidential election is considered by many as a repeat of the bitter 2014 presidential race, wherein Jokowi and Prabowo Subianto are again set to go head-to-head.
Seeking a second term, 57-year-old Jokowi has picked Ma`ruf Amin (75), chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), as his partner, while retired general Subianto (67) has chosen Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno (49), a successful entrepreneur and former deputy governor of Jakarta, as his running mate.
Reporting by Imam Budilaksono, fardah
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