REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPU DKI) has rectified around 29 thousand data entries for eligible voters holding invalid Citizen ID Numbers (NIK) in the list of eligible voters for general elections 2014.

The rectification was part of a process aimed at addressing faults in some 66 thousand data entries of voters, M Sidik, the Chairman of the working group for updating voters' data at KPU DKI, said on Wednesday.

"Almost half (of the number of total problematic data entries) has been rectified," he stated.

The Commission underwent a process of prior verification of the actual voters before fixing the data, Sidik pointed out.

Earlier, the General Elections Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) had allowed the national KPU to complete the rectification of 10.4 million problematic data entries of voters within 30 days from November 4.

KPU finally estimated the total number of domestic eligible voters for the general elections in 2014 at 186,612,255 persons, which consists of 93,439,610 men and 93,172,645 women.

They will cast their votes at 545,778 voting stations in 81,034 villages in 6,980 sub-districts located in 497 districts/cities in 33 provinces.

The total number of eligible Indonesian voters living overseas is 2,010,280. They are based in 130 countries, which will have a total number of 873 polling stations.

Indonesia plans to hold national, provincial and district legislative elections in April 2014, which will be followed by the presidential election on July 9.

KPU Chairman Husni Kamil Manik noted that the KPU had considered all inputs before declaring the DPT.

However, some 10.4 million voters were being considered "problematic" because they did not have citizenship identity numbers (NIKs).

Husni said he hoped to quickly put together the data regarding these 10.4 million problematic voters. He assured that this number was real and that the political rights of these voters will be ensured.

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