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Monitoring Accesible Election in 2014 Presidential Election: Finding from Aceh, Jakarta, Central Java, South Kalimantan and South Sulawesi

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The General Election Network for Disability Access (AGENDA) conducted monitoring activities during Indonesia’s presidential election to evaluate the accessibility of the electoral process for persons with disabilities. Election Day was held on July 9, 2014. AGENDA is a coalition of disabled people’s organizations (DPOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in Southeast Asia that aims to promote the political and electoral rights of persons with disabilities in the region. Partners are from Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam. The observation of the Indonesian presidential election was carried out as part of the second phase of the AGENDA program, supported by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
The main purpose of AGENDA’s observation activities was to assess the degree to which the presidential election was accessible to voters with disabilities in five areas: voter education, voter registration, polling stations, voting process, and voter turnout. The provinces selected for observation were Jakarta Special Administrative Area, Central Java, Aceh, South Kalimantan and South Sulawesi. AGENDA recruited 60 election observers per province, for a total of 300 observers across all five provinces and three international observers. Of these, 50 percent were observers with disabilities. On the day of the presidential election, observers visited select polling stations to complete polling station checklists and to conduct interviews with polling station staff. They later revisited the same stations to conduct a post-election survey with voters with disabilities. In the days after the election, AGENDA observers interviewed persons with disabilities who did not vote to find out their reasons for not doing so. AGENDA collected data from 470 polling stations. Interviews were also conducted with 470 polling station staff members (one per polling station), 789 voters with disabilities, and 387 persons with disabilities who did not vote.

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Utan Kayu Jakarta Indoensia : ., 2014

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138 hlm; 30 cm

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Indonesia

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KP XXI

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Politik
Aceh
Jakarta
Election
Central Java
South Kalimantan
South Sulawesi

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