Observing the 2014 Presidential Election

July 10, 2014

Indonesia held a presidential election on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Election Day was a national holiday, with voting taking place from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Vote counting took place after 1:00 p.m. at the polling station. All citizens of…

Presidential Election Monitoring Findings

July 9, 2014

AGENDA/JPPR organized a press conference on 9 July in the afternoon at the Media Center of the National KPU to share its monitoring findings and provided a statement on the level of accessibility of the election. Results for the conference included the collected information as of 12.30 pm from the field. By 12.30…

Monitoring Accessible Presidential Election in Aceh, South Kalimantan, Central Java, South Sulawesi and Jakarta

July 9, 2014

On 9 July, AGENDA/JPPR mobilized 300 trained observers to monitor the Presidential Election in five provinces (Aceh, Jakarta, Central Java, South Kalimantan and South Sulawesi). Half of the election monitors, organized by AGENDA’s partner JPPR, were persons with disabilities and 36% of the observers were female. Three different checklists/surveys with 72 questions in…

AGENDA Training of Data Center Team

July 8, 2014

On 7 July, AGENDA/JPPR organized half-day training for the data center team (20 people) on how to enter the monitoring findings from all five provinces into the central database and how to interact with the observers in the field to clarify specific information via phone.

Observer Trainings

July 7, 2014

All observers were required to participate in a training to prepare for their Election Day duties. Observer trainings were conducted during a two-week period prior to the election and held in one central location within each province.

The provinces were: Jakarta Special Administrative Area, Central Java, Aceh, South Kalimantan and South Sulawesi. The two-day workshop…

Training of AGENDA’s election observers in Aceh, South Kalimantan, Central Java, South Sulawesi and Jakarta

July 6, 2014

On June 27–28 June, 28-29 June, 1-2 July, 2-3 July and 4-5 July AGENDA/JPPR held trainings for 300 observers in South Kalimantan, Aceh, Central Java, South Sulawesi and Jakarta respectively. The 60 observers in each province consisted of 30 disabled from PPDI and 30 non-disabled observers from JPPR. KPU Commissioner and member of…

Checklists and Surveys

June 26, 2014

AGENDA designed a polling station checklist and post-election survey to be used as election observation tools. The checklists and surveys were modified from existing versions that were originally developed and piloted for observing five local elections in Indonesia between November 2011 and July 2012. The presidential election checklist and survey were adapted to…

Workshop of AGENDA’s Provincial Coordinators for the election Monitoring Mission

June 23, 2014

On June 22-23, AGENDA/JPPR held training for the 10 coordinators of AGENDA’s monitoring mission for the presidential election. The coordinator consisted of 5 PPDI representatives and 5 JPPR representatives from 5 provinces in Indonesia (Aceh, Jakarta, Central Java, South Sulawesi and South Kalimantan). Fadhil, DKI Jakarta KPU Commissioner and M. Jufri Bawaslu DKI…

AGENDA Launching Event

June 19, 2014

19 June 2014, AGENDA launched AGENDA II, the second phase of the project. Opening remarks for the event were provided by H.E. Simon Merrifield, Australian Ambassador to ASEAN and Daniel Zuchron, Commissioner of BAWASLU. Both welcomed the second phase of the AGENDA project and the continued effort to enhance accessible elections in the…