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71 election workers died from exhaustion in Indonesia amid last week’s polls, while some 4,000 fell sick
- The death toll came despite the government imposing an age cap for volunteers and mandating health checks after more than 500 workers died in 2019
- Five million paid volunteers worked at around 800,000 voting booths across the nation in last week’s voting, which lasted for about six hours
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Seventy-one people have so far died from exhaustion following the world’s largest single-day election in Indonesia last week, according to the government.
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Some 4,000 others fell sick between February 14 and February 18 due to fatigue after helping run the February 14 election, Hasyim Asy’ari, chairman of the nation’s poll body said in a press conference in Jakarta on Monday.
The latest election still claimed dozens of lives despite the government imposing an age cap for volunteers and mandating health checks after more than 500 polling station workers died following the 2019 vote.
Five million paid volunteers worked at 800,000 voting booths across the nation in last week’s voting that lasted about six hours. More than 200 million citizens were registered to cast their ballots to elect a president, vice-president and legislators on the national and local levels.
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