一億多張選票全靠人工數，印尼大選累死272名計票官員！

Indonesia election: 270 officials die as overwork takes toll in huge poll

印度尼西亞大選：270名官員因工作過度而死亡

來源：衛報 翻譯：世界播

Electoral commission says most died from fatigue due caused by long hours counting millions of ballots.

選舉委員會說，大多數人過勞死，因長時間清點數百萬張選票。

Women look at voting information at a polling station during elections in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Photograph: Willy Kurniawan/Reuters

印度尼西亞西爪哇島茂物，婦女在投票站查看投票信息。攝影:威利?科尼亞萬/路透社

Ten days after Indonesia held the world』s biggest single-day elections, officials say more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illneses caused by long hours of work counting millions of ballot papers by hand.

印度尼西亞舉行了世界上最大的單日選舉10天之後，官員們說，270多名選舉官員死亡，其中大部分是由於長時間手工清點數百萬張選票導致的疲勞相關的疾病。

The 17 April elections were the first time the country of 260 million people combined the presidential vote with national and regional parliamentary ones, with an aim to cut costs.

4月17日的選舉是這個2.6億人口的國家首次將總統選舉與國家和地區議會選舉結合起來，這樣做的目的是削減成本。

Voting was largely peaceful and was estimated to have drawn 80% of the total 193 million voters, who each had to punch up to five ballot papers in more than 800,000 polling stations.

投票基本上是平穩的，據估計吸引了1.93億選民中80%的人前來投票，在80多萬個投票站中，每位選民都要填寫5張選票。

But conducting the eight-hour vote in a country that stretches more than 5,000km (3,000 miles) from its western to eastern tips has been a huge logistical feat and deadly for officials, who had to count ballot papers by hand.

在一個東西橫跨有5000公里長的國家，進行長達8個小時的投票，這既是一項艱巨的後勤工作，對於工作人員來說也是「致命的」。因為他們不得不手工計票。

As of Saturday night, 272 election officials had died, mostly from overwork-related illnesses, while 1,878 others had fallen ill, said Arief Priyo Susanto, spokesman of the country』s election commission (KPU) on Sunday.

據印尼選舉委員會發言人阿瑞夫? 普利揚?蘇沙托 上周日介紹，截至上周六晚，已有272名選舉工作人員死亡，其中大多數死於與工作有關的疾病，另有1878人患病。

The health ministry issued a circular letter on 23 April urging health facilities to give utmost care for sick election staff, while the finance ministry was working on compensation for families of the deceased, Susanto added.

蘇沙托補充說，衛生部於4月23日發出了一封通函，敦促衛生機構為生病的選舉工作人員提供最大限度的護理，同時財政部正在為死者家屬提供賠償。

The KPU has come under fire due to the rising death toll.

由於死亡人數不斷上升，印尼選舉委員會受到了攻擊。

「The KPU is not prudent in managing the workload of staff,」 said Ahmad Muzani, deputy chairman of the campaign of opposition presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, reported by news website Kumparan.com.

據新聞網站Kumparan.com報道，反對派總統候選人普拉博沃?蘇比安托競選團隊副主席艾哈邁德?穆扎尼說:「印尼選舉委員會在管理員工的工作量方面不夠謹慎。」

Prabowo, who independent pollsters said was the loser of the 2019 polls based on quick counts, had alleged widespread cheating and his campaign claimed some officials punched ballots in favour of incumbent president Joko Widodo. Widodo』s security minister said the allegations were baseless.

獨立民調機構稱，根據快速計票，普拉博沃是2019年大選的輸家。普拉博沃曾指控普遍存在舞弊行為，他的競選團隊稱，一些工作人員填寫選票，支持現任總統佐科?維多多。維多多的安全部長表示，這些指控毫無根據。

Both candidates have declared victory, though quick counts suggested Widodo won the election by around 9-10 percentage points.

兩位候選人都宣布獲勝，不過很快的計票顯示維多多以9-10個百分點的優勢贏得了選舉。

The KPU will conclude vote counting and announce winners of the presidential and parliamentary elections on 22 May.

印尼選舉委員會將於5月22日結束計票工作，並宣布總統和議會選舉的獲勝者。

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