And one would imagine that poll workers would have some minimum age, increasing the death rate over the average.
[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...
Why do you think so? Here, election committees are stereotypically composed of retirees that have nothing better to do...