inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government together with the DKI Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) will conduct weather engineering for the 2024 Regional Head Election (Pilkada) as an effort to prevent flooding on voting day.

"Based on the weather forecast from Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the potential for rain for November 25-26-27 is actually moderate. However, we are currently observing the implementation of weather engineering from BPBD," said Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Province Teguh Setyabudi on Monday (11/25/2024).

Meanwhile, the Head of the DKI Jakarta Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), Munandar Nugraha, said that he had also noted the weather issues. He also hopes that the weather engineering that will be carried out can run well.

According to data from the Jakarta General Election Commission (KPU), the total number of permanent voters (DPT) for the 2024 Regional Head Election is 8,214,007 voters.

The 2024 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election is contested by candidate pair of Ridwan Kamil-Suswono (RIDO), Dharma Pongrekun-Kun Wardana (Dharma-Kun), and Pramono Anung-Rano Karno (Pram-Doel).

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