Step 1 of 7 · Formulir Model C Pemberitahuan
The invitation
Days before, the polling-station committee (KPPS) delivers a notice with the voter's name and TPS. It is not required to vote — an e-KTP is enough if the name is on the list.
✶ How to vote · cara mencoblos · 07.00–13.00 local time
Punch,
then ink.
Every Indonesian citizen of 17 or over, or who is or has been married, may vote; registration is automatic. On polling day you show your identity card at your polling station (TPS), punch a hole in each ballot with a nail, drop each into the box of its colour and dip a finger in ink. On 14 February 2024, 81,48% of 204.422.181 electors did.
Who votes · hak memilih
Seventeen,
or married.
- hak memilih
Who may vote
Every Indonesian citizen who is 17 or older on polling day, or is or has been married. Each voter is registered once.
Source ↗ -
Who may not
Serving members of the armed forces (TNI) and police (Polri) do not vote, and people whose political rights a court has revoked.
Source ↗ - Daftar Pemilih Tetap (DPT)
Registration is automatic
The KPU builds the final voter list (DPT) from the civil registry (Dukcapil) and door-to-door checks (coklit) by local staff. In 2024 it listed 204,807,222 voters, 1.75 million of them abroad.
Source ↗ - Daftar Pemilih Tambahan (DPTb), pindah memilih
Voting somewhere else
A registered voter who will be away — work, study, hospital, prison, disaster — applies to move to another polling station up to 30 days before (the KPU extended some cases). Moving province means voting only for President (and the DPR/DPD where the district is the same).
Source ↗ - Daftar Pemilih Khusus (DPK)
Not on any list
A citizen with an e-KTP identity card who is not on the DPT or DPTb may vote at the station for their address in the last hour (12:00–13:00), if ballots remain.
Source ↗ - Are you on the list?
Ask the KPU
Enter your identity number (NIK) on the KPU's own site to see your listing and polling station. This site makes no voter-roll lookups.
cekdptonline.kpu.go.id ↗
Polling day
Polling day · at the TPS
From the invitation to the count
What happens at your polling station, in order.
Step 2 of 7 · At the TPS
Polls open 07:00–13:00 local time
Each station serves at most 500 voters (300 in 2024 by KPU decision) and is run by seven KPPS members, with two security officers, party witnesses and a Bawaslu supervisor. Polling day is a national holiday. Hours follow the local time zone, WIB, WITA or WIT.
Step 3 of 7 · mencoblos
Punch, don't tick
In the booth the voter punches a hole through the ballot with the nail (paku) provided — once per ballot. A ballot is valid if it carries the KPPS chair's signature and the hole falls inside a box for one choice; a hole through a fold that leaves a symmetrical second hole still counts.
Step 4 of 7 · At the TPS
Ink on a finger
Before leaving, the voter dips a finger in indelible ink to prevent voting twice. Photographing a marked ballot in the booth is forbidden.
Step 5 of 7 · Formulir Model C.Hasil
Counting in public, the same day
After 13:00 the KPPS counts each ballot aloud, showing it to witnesses and the public, and records the tallies on large plano tally sheets (C.Hasil) and copies (C.Salinan) for witnesses. Counting must finish at the TPS on polling day; PKPU 25/2023 lets it be extended by up to 12 hours.
Step 6 of 7 · At the TPS
Photo upload to Sirekap
The KPPS photographs the C.Hasil sheets and uploads them to the KPU's Sirekap app, which publishes the images and machine-read numbers online. Sirekap is a transparency tool only; the legal result comes from the manual recapitulation.
Step 7 of 7 · At the TPS
Recapitulation, level by level
Tally sheets are summed in public meetings: district (PPK, kecamatan), then the regency/city KPU, the provincial KPU and finally the KPU in Jakarta, which declared the 2024 national result on 20 March — 35 days after polling.
Five ballots · lima surat suara
One colour
for each race.
- abu-abu · grey
President and Vice-President
Punch once on the number, names, photo or a nominating party's symbol in one pair's box.
- kuning · yellow
House of Representatives
Punch once on a party's number or symbol and/or one candidate's name. A punch on a candidate counts for them and their party; on the party only, for the party.
- merah · red
Regional Representative Council
Punch once on one candidate's number, name or photo (individual candidates, no parties).
- biru · blue
Provincial assembly
As for the DPR.
- hijau · green
Regency or city assembly
As for the DPR. Not in Jakarta.
Jakarta's voters had four: Jakarta has no elected regency or city assemblies. Voters who moved province before polling day (DPTb) get only the ballots of the races they can still vote in. From 2029 the national vote will have three ballots (President, DPR, DPD), and the local vote the assemblies and regional heads. Paper colours as set by the KPU for 2024 (reported ↗); the marks allowed, UU 7/2017 art. 353 ↗.
Suara sah · what counts
A hole in
the right box.
On the DPR and assembly ballots you may punch a party, one of its candidates, or both. Open lists mean the candidate punch matters: seats go to each party's candidates in order of their personal votes.
| Punched | Counted | Art. |
|---|---|---|
| Party only | Valid for the party | 53(5)(a), (f) |
| One candidate only | Valid for the candidate, and so for the party | 53(5)(b), (n) |
| The party and one of its candidates | Valid for the candidate | 53(5)(c) |
| The party and two or more of its candidates | Valid for the party | 53(5)(d) |
| Two or more candidates of one party | Valid for the party | 53(5)(e) |
| The blank space under a party's list | Valid for the party | 53(5)(g) |
| A candidate who has died or no longer qualifies | Valid for the party | 53(5)(k), (l) |
| Marks in two parties' boxes, or a candidate of another party | Invalid | 53(2), (5) |
| Not signed by the KPPS chair, or written on | Invalid | 53(2)(a), 55(7) |
Read from the text of PKPU 25/2023 ↗ (art. 53–55). For President, one or more punches inside one pair's column count for that pair (art. 53(4)); on the DPD ballot, inside one candidate's column (art. 53(6)). A hole through the folded paper that leaves a symmetrical twin in the same column is one vote.
Open list · daftar calon terbuka
Each party prints its candidates for the district in its own column. A punch on a name is a personal vote: within each party's seats, the candidates with the most of them win. Each party may list as many candidates as the district has seats, so with 18 parties a ten-seat district's ballot can carry up to 180 names.
Try it · coblos · PKPU 25/2023 art. 53
Punch a practice ballot
A sample DPR ballot: fictional parties and candidates. Tap a party's number or symbol, a candidate's name, or the blank space below a list. Tap a hole again to remove it.
SURAT SUARA · PEMILIHAN UMUM ANGGOTA DPR · sample
KPPS chair's signature:
Tinta · the inked finger
One finger,
one vote.
After the last ballot goes in, the voter dips a finger in the ink provided before leaving the TPS (PKPU 25/2023 art. 27(3)). The violet stain lasts for days: it is how a station knows someone has already voted, and a familiar polling-day photo.
Writing on the ballot is forbidden, and so is photographing your choice in the booth (art. 28). The ink, the transparent boxes and the count in public are the checks; the vote itself stays secret.
Counting and recapitulation · penghitungan dan rekapitulasi
Read aloud,
sheet by sheet.
From 13.00 the KPPS opens every ballot in front of witnesses and the public, calls it valid or invalid aloud, and marks the tally on large sheets pinned to the wall. The sheets are photographed into the KPU's Sirekap app, then added up in public meetings at the district, regency, province and national levels. The 2024 national result came 35 days after polling day.
The count, level by level →Abroad · pemilih luar negeri
Two ballots,
from embassies and the post.
Citizens abroad vote for President and for the DPR, in the Jakarta II district; they have no DPD or assembly ballot. In 2024, 1.750.474 were on the overseas list and 671.366 cast a valid presidential vote; the KPU put turnout abroad at 43,8%. Overseas committees (PPLN) at each mission ran the vote some days before the home vote.
Overseas list: KPU, 2 July 2023; votes and turnout: KPU decrees 360 and 1043/2024. The DPD electorate in decree 1207/2024 is domestic only. UU 7/2017 art. 397 ↗.
- TPSLN
Polling stations abroad
At embassies, consulates and other venues, on a day the overseas committee sets.
- Kotak Suara Keliling (KSK)
Mobile ballot boxes
Taken to workplaces, dormitories and ships where many Indonesians live far from a mission.
- Pos
Postal voting
Ballots are mailed to registered voters and returned to the PPLN, which counts them with the TPSLN results.
Accessibility
Help in the booth,
a box at the bedside.
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Help in the booth
Voters with disabilities may bring a helper of their choice or ask a KPPS member, who must sign a statement to keep the vote secret.
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Braille templates
Blind voters may use a braille template (alat bantu tunanetra) — for the presidential and DPD ballots only.
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Hospitals, prisons and homes
KPPS teams carry ballots to patients and residents who cannot reach the TPS.
Procedures in PKPU 25/2023 ↗.
Three time zones
07.00 to 13.00,
local time.
Every polling station keeps the same hours by its own clock, so the east opens and closes first. Quick counts wait for the west: 15.00 WIB.
- UTC+7 · Waktu Indonesia Barat WIB Sumatra, Java, West and Central Kalimantan Open 07.00 WIB – 13.00 WIB
- UTC+8 · Waktu Indonesia Tengah WITA Bali, Nusa Tenggara, South, East and North Kalimantan, Sulawesi Open 06.00 WIB – 12.00 WIB
- UTC+9 · Waktu Indonesia Timur WIT Maluku and Papua Open 05.00 WIB – 11.00 WIB
Hours 07.00–13.00 as published by the KPU for 2024 (reported ↗); voters still queuing at 13.00 may vote, and the unregistered with an e-KTP (DPK) vote in the last hour.