Avoiding a Crisis

The situation over ballot boxes, papers and dividers for the general elections is criticaland the regional KPUs are getting worried.

March 9, 2004

MOHAMMAD Panjili is panicstricken. Every day he sits in his office waiting for his election materials from Jakarta. A week passed, but no logistics supplies were in sight. As Deputy Chairman of the General Elections Commission (KPU) of Poso Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, he is clearly worried. The general elections will arrive in a matter of days, but the ballot boxes, dividers and ballot papers have not yet come. Without them, an election is i

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