But then I read the article, and it said there were 7 million people counting votes. If those deaths were over the period of about 10 days since the election, that works out to an annualized death rate of about 0.14%. I don't know what a "baseline" death rate would be for this population, but it at least adds some context.
So, the article really ought to have put that into context, and specify over which period they died.
(Note, as an aside, that UK, USA, and, say, Germany, have significantly higher death rates - the reason being the older population, presumably.)
And it is low danger but not as low danger as staying home. Many would commute by motorcycle in the open air, much of which is heavily polluted, and staying home would ensure they stick to routines of drinking water and resting during the hottest times.
Why do you think so? Here, election committees are stereotypically composed of retirees that have nothing better to do...
[1] https://knoema.com/atlas/Indonesia/topics/Demographics/Morta...
To see whether it's abnormal or not, one would have to examine the age profile of the volunteers and crunch the numbers.
The uncritical reporting is quite disappointing. I mean, more than 1000 people died in New York in the week following the Indonesian election. Someone please look into that!!!!1!!1!
[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
[2] https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...
If everyone in the country submitted a ballot that would be less than 30 per person to check.
This doesn't seem to match the terrible conditions described in the article.
If you transported the ballots to central location, you could wind-up with a smaller number of counters working through the night.
So basically, if tasks were divided poorly beforehand something seemingly ridiculously easy on paper could wind-up a complete disaster for a few, at scale.
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.
> 193 million eligible voters
It won't takes them 10 days to count an average of 30 votes.
Seems a bit much.