In updating the data, the Foreign Affairs Ministry utilized the Care for Indonesian Citizen portal...Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Foreign Affairs Ministry has submitted its list of potential electoral voters (DP4) living overseas (LN), which consists of 1,806,714 Indonesian diasporas, for the 2024 General Elections to the General Election Commission (KPU).
The figure consists of 1,064,755 women and 740,105 men, expert staff for sociocultural affairs and empowerment of overseas Indonesian communities at the ministry Siti Nugraha Mauludiah informed at the KPU’s office here on Wednesday.
While preparing the DP4 LN, the ministry carried out various efforts to update the data on overseas Indonesian citizens by involving all representatives of Indonesian communities abroad, she informed.
Furthermore, the ministry received full support from the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) of the Home Affairs Ministry as well as the Directorate General of Immigration of the Law and Human Rights Ministry while collecting data for the potential voter list.
"In updating the data, the Foreign Affairs Ministry utilized the Care for Indonesian Citizen portal, which also serves as a platform to provide (administrative) service and protection for Indonesian citizens abroad,” the expert staff said.
The portal has been integrated with the Directorate General of Dukcapil's Population Administration Information System (SIAK) and the Directorate General of Immigration’s Immigration Management Information System (SIMKIM), she added.
In addition, the Care for Indonesian Citizen platform has been linked with the Computerized System for Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection (SISKOP2MI) of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI), she noted.
Still, the data on Indonesian citizens abroad can change over time, hence, the ministry and several stakeholders will continue to update the data regularly, Mauludiah said.
She added that although the DP4 LN has been submitted, the Foreign Affairs Ministry will always be ready to support the next steps of general election preparations, such as the establishment of overseas general election committees in every country where Indonesian citizens live.
The general elections will be held on February 14, 2024.
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