REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The next simultaneous regional head elections (Pilkada) will be organized on February 15, 2017, according to Head of the General Election Commission (KPU) Husni Kamil Malik.
"So, it will be on (February) 15," he said here, Friday.
Initially, the Commission had two options, whether to hold it on February 8 or 15, 2017. But the February 8 option was ruled out because it was coinciding with a religious event in Papua, he explained.
The Pilkada will be organized in 101 regions. The preparations will start this year.
On December 9, 2015, simultaneous regional head elections were organized in 264 regions in 32 out of Indonesia's 34 provinces.
In the pilkada, 810 pairs of regional head candidates participated.
These included 123 women contesting for regional heads or deputy regional heads, or only 7.32 percent of the total candidates.
The 810 pairs of candidates, including 122 incumbents, contested for the posts of eight governors and vice governors, 222 district heads and their deputies, and 34 mayors and their deputies.
Some 100,461,890 Indonesians comprising 50,297,463 men and 50,164,427 women were eligible as voters in the 2015 pilkada, according to data provided by the KPU.
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