Universitas Indonesia Conferences, The Seventh International Conference on Strategic and Global Studies 2023

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Geospatial Intelligence in Supporting Security Stability for the Indonesian General Election in 2024
Dwi Rachmatullah, Raden Roro Mega Utami

Last modified: 2023-05-05

Abstract


The 2024 General Election is a democratic party and a national-scale political event that will be held in Indonesia to elect candidates for President, DPR, DPD, DPRD, and Regional Head simultaneously. Many of the challenges that will be faced in order to succeed this event include the planning and preparation stages, election governance and accountability, and ensuring security aspects during the election activities. The security aspect is the main focus of attention that must be prioritized in this major five-year political event. The utilization of geospatial intelligence information technology can provide solutions in the context of monitoring, forecasting/predicting, and retrieving information data through a description of the situation presented by satellite imagery. Geospatial information analysis produces superior and precise intelligence information as has been done by developed countries in the world. Using a qualitative approach, this study will make an analysis by searching the literature in the form of articles, documents, and policies with the keywords "geospatial intelligence"; "general election"; "security system"; "national resilience" and also by analyzing the experiences of other countries. Geospatial intelligence can accurately provide information from the processing of imagery data regarding the position of hotspots of activity concentration, operational environment to reduce uncertainty, identify opportunities for success, assess possible risks, and decipher the motives of the area of interest. Indonesia needs to create a geospatial intelligence system so that it can be combined with other intelligence information, so that it can be more accurate, especially in dealing with threats that can destabilize the security of the 2024 elections. This research is expected to be taken into consideration by decision makers in order to maintain security during election activities, in order to maintain stability and conduciveness to support Indonesia's national resilience at this crucial period.