Electronic voting for the people of Mount Merapi, really?

The claim on how Indonesia is ready to implement electronic voting technology in its presidential election is baseless, or at least is believed to be premature. There are many issues that need to be firstly addressed, such as infrastructure unreadiness, people´s reluctance to accept the technology, and lacks of standard and framework prior to its implementation; before jumping into conclusion that the country needs the technology. Moreover, there is no sufficient evidence to say that the people are willing to change the way they vote from the traditional paper-based to the new electronic system. This paper studies the preference of the people of Mount Merapi on the voting system for the country´s presidential election. It looks at how their experience with technology affects their attitude towards electronic voting, and furthermore their intention to use the technology. The result shows that only around 13% of the respondents had experience using computers and the internet, respectively. This paper suggests that this might have caused the reluctance of the people of Mount Merapi to use electronic voting, and that the idea of implementing the technology in Indonesia´s presidential election might still be debatable.