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800K polling places is a lot. In huge Russia, we have only about 90 000 of them. Indonesia has twice the population, but it is still a lot.
by codedokode 7y ago
800K polling places is a lot. In huge Russia, we have only about 90 000 of them. Indonesia has twice the population, but it is still a lot.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Indonesia has twice the population, but it is still a lot. Indonesia is an archipelago of lots of small islands, so getting around is a lot more difficult. Per capita or per land area, it's going to need a lot more polling places than some place like Russia or the US.
- IbelieveinSteve 7y agoIndonesia has very poorly developed land infrastructure outside of Jakarta. If you look at google maps, going from one side of Java to another takes 17.4hours for 1100km, note that this is the most developed island, if you do Medan to Palembang it's 32h for 1400km.
- acchow 7y agoMoscow to Vladivostok is a 9,000 km drive taking at least 100 hours.