The General Elections Commission (KPU) announced on Sunday that the number of eligible voters for the upcoming July 8, 2009 presidential elections reached 176,367,056.
The number of the voters which are included in the official fixed voters` list (DPT), increased by five million from that in the recent April 9, 2009 legislative elections which was recorded at 171,068,667 voters.
Of the 176,367,056 eligible voters, 175.233.318 are voters at home (Indonesia) and the remaining overseas, KPU member Andi Nurpati told a press conference on Sunday.
She said that although the KPU had announced the DPT, it had advised all its representative offices in the regions to carry out cross-checks and recheck data in the field in order to assure that data obtained were valid.
Andi said that this step was taken to avoid duplication in the voters` lists, or the inclusion in the lists of voters who had passed away.
Earlier in the day, KPU Chairman Abdul Hafiz Anshary said there was the possibility of the commission to delay the official announcement of the fixed voters list.
The KPU chairman said that there were still problems with data from Papua province because not all of the data from its districts had been collected by the Papua KPU office.
He said that the delay in the announcement of the DPT did not violate the law because under the law the DPT should be announced one month at latest before the polls were organized.
"The May 31, 2009 deadline is set in the KPU regulation," he said.
Anshary said that the KPU had done its utmost in improving the voters` list. It even had written to the political parties to ask for their assistance in encouraging eligible voters to register themselves.
He said that the people were also given a chance to directly check whether their names were really on the lists at the villagers` head offices.(antara.co.id)
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