KPU Announces Pemilu Recapitulation Soon

INDONESIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2009 - The General Elections Commission (KPU) said Monday that it kept its plan unchanged despite the Jakarta hotel bombing and would start national recapitulation of votes on July 22 and would announce the result of presidential elections on July 27.
KPU member Sri Nuryanti said votes recapitulations in regency and provincial levels proceeded as planned, and in some places, like in Central Kalimantan, the processes had even been completed.

"The schedule for national recapitulation will remain the same, July 22-24," Yanti told Tempointeraktif.com.
Quick counts and also latest data from KPU show that President Susilo Bambang Yudhono secured a landslide reelection win by about 60 percent of votes.
Yanti noted that KPU had asked the National Police to give additional security protection to KPU building during the national recapitulation process, which will be open for observers and media people, and on the day when KPU would announce the results, i.e. July 27.
"We are sure that the recapitulation process will be secure," she said.
President Yudhoyono said moment after bombs rocked JW Marriot and Ritz-Carlton hotel on Friday that his political opponents had planned to mobilize people to occupy the KPU building on the day when it would announce the presidential election.
The bombing killed nine people and injured more than 50.(jp)