Approximately 1,500 residents of the South Bukit Barisan National Park in Kaur regency, Bengkulu, might not be able to vote in the upcoming legislative election as no officers from the Regional General Elections Commission (KPUD) have visited the area to register them.
Sofyan, a local resident, said on Monday that the local administration considered his neighborhood a shanty town. However, in 2009 four polling stations were set up in the area.
“But apparently there will be no polling stations erected in the area because we haven’t seen any KPU officers gathering data about local residents,” he said as quoted by kompas.com.
He said there were five neighborhood units, locally called talang, located within the South Bukit Barisan National Park.
“As many as 700 families or 1,500 residents inhabit the five talang, namely Tengah, Cemara, Sinar Semende, Kepahiang and Baru,” he said.
He said the residents still expected to vote in the elections.
KPUD Kaur head Sirajudin acknowledged that his office had not registered local residents because they inhabited a prohibited area.
“They live in a prohibited area, therefore we won’t set up any polling stations there,” he said.
Source/Fuente: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/04/02/local-bukit-barisan-reside...
