Jakarta. The government on Wednesday handed the list of more than 205 million potential voters to the General Election Commission, of KPU, for Indonesia’s historic elections in 2024 when eligible citizens for the first time ever will elect leaders from mayors to the president and legislative members from the district level to the national legislature in the same year.

The figures include 1.8 million voters living in foreign countries.

The number of voters countrywide is estimated at 204 million distributed in all 38 provinces, according to John Wempi Wetipo, a deputy for the home affairs minister.

"Why 38 provinces? Because there are four new provinces in Papua, including South Papua, Papua Mountains, Central Papua, and Southwest Papua," John told reporters at the KPU headquarters in Jakarta.

"Our colleagues from the dukcapil [Citizenship and Civil Registration Office] have collected data on the estimate of 204 million voters across Indonesia by the time the election processions begin on February 14, 2024," John added.

On the same occasion, the Foreign Affairs Ministry also handed the data of 1.8 million voters living overseas, comprising of 1.06 million female citizens and around 740,000 male citizens.

Siti Nugraha Maulidia, an expert staff of the ministry, said representative offices will continue updating the data in accordance with the mobility of Indonesian citizens living in other countries.

"We have 133 representative offices across the globe,” she said.

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