Jakarta Globe, Ari Rikin, July 25, 2013
Teens parade in traditional Balinese costumes in Jembrana district, Bali, on June 11, 2011. (JG Photo/JP Christo) |
Bali’s
Jembrana district is set to hold another electronic voting ballot when
residents in four of Mendoyo Dangin Tukad village’s hamlets elect a new village
chief on July 29.
The
district is known as Indonesia’s e-voting pioneer for having adopted the
state-of-the-art system in its dusun , or traditional hamlet, election back in
2009 and in several elections that followed.
This year,
the e-voting system, developed by the government’s Agency for the Assessment
and Application of Technology (BPPT), will be verifying voters based on their
electronic ID cards, or e-KTP.
Hammam
Riza, the director of the BPPT’s Information Technology and Communications
Center, said the village chief election in Jembrana would be a major
breakthrough for Indonesia as it would be the first use of the e-KTP system in
a ballot.
“This will
be an effective and efficient solution for our country. The security of this
system has also been prioritized. Electoral disputes have always stemmed from
ballot fraud, which should be avoided,” he said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Andari
Grahitandaru, the head of the Electronic Election System Pro gram, echoed
Hammam’s emphasis on the electronic system’s efficiency, citing the significant
savings that could be made.
She cited a
recent election for village chief in Boyolali, Central Java, where the
government had to provide Rp 25 million ($2,430) for each of the 16 villages
taking part in the election, for a total election budget of Rp 4 billion.
According
to Andari, the e-voting system, which in 2010 was made official by a
Constitutional Court ruling that allowed its application, would cut up to Rp 2
billion of the budget as regional administrations only needed to invest in five
e-voting devices, each of them costing Rp 50 million, which could subsequently
be reused in later years.
“Just
imagine, all this time we could have repeated the village elections several
times over,” she said.
“The price
of democracy is quite expensive. There are 76,665 villages in Indonesia with
[the total] election funds amounting to Rp 2 trillion.”
In 2010,
Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi stated that the country would not be ready
to fully apply the e-voting system in time for the 2014 legislative and
presidential elections, but could have it in place for the 2019 polls.
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Question: I recently attended a Kryon "At Home" seminar where Lee
discussed that due to the grid changes, places like Sedona, Arizona, have less
energetic resonance, while places like Mt. Shasta, California, now have an
increased resonance. What other places now have an increasing resonance, and what
can we do to help contribute to the new energy?
Answer (from Lee): There really isn’t anything you can do to enhance or contribute to
what Kryon calls the new "vortals." This is an Earth process, and we
just get to participate. Sedona is still a beautiful, energetic place, but it
lacks the profound polarity of energies that used to be present there. It’s not
because of anything that happened there, but rather the new energy of the
planet, which is moving more toward Lemurian energies.
So Mt.
Shasta is a big one, and Kryon has indicated that it’s ripe for a major change.
Other areas that are being affected are New Zealand and Bali. These have
very strong Lemurian energies.
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