There are calls for change to the way Indonesia conducts elections after 115 staff died during and in the days after the country's national poll last month.
But shortly after more than 204 million citizens voted in the poll won by Prabowo Subianto, the country's health ministry reported that 115 election officials had died.
The health ministry said more than 15,000 election officials also turned up at hospitals, with most patients reporting digestive and respiratory issues.Terence Hull, emeritus professor of demography at The Australian National University, said there were many factors that would need to be considered for a proper analysis but in simple terms the number did not appear unusual.
"If an Australian poll worker dies of a heart attack or something that's recorded by the civil register, but it's not recorded by the electoral commission," he said.But Mr Hull said many poll workers in Indonesia did have risky jobs.Almost 900 election officials died during the 2019 election, according to the General Election Commission .
"They had to upload 50 forms … on top of other workloads, which was already heavy enough. I imagine they would've been stressed out."Ms Hayati and her team randomly inspected polling stations, and found some were still operating at 6am on the day after the election."There were some errors with the app and other things like the data not being entered or counted accurately," the university student said.
They were required to be "physically and spiritually healthy and free from any substance use", the ministry said.Ms Hayati said the health screening for this election was better than the previous election, but "could've been tighter".But Daffa said a medical check wasn't required when he signed up and that no health staff were at the polling station where he worked.The ABC approached the KPU for comment but did not receive a response.