Jakarta – Fifteen days ahead of the presidential election, millions of voters are still yet to be registered on the electoral roll (DPT), depriving them of their constitutional right to vote.

Deputy chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights, Ridha Saleh, said Tuesday that 20 to 40 percent of eligible voters were still not registered for the upcoming presidential election on July 8. "There are systemic violations that have caused million of voters to lose their constitutional right," he said.

He said the 2009 legislative elections had highlighted the poor quality, credibility, administration, performance and policies of the General Elections Commission (KPU).

"We urge the government to take firm action against the KPU for their negligence that could prevent millions of people from voting," he said.

There are around 176 million voters on the presidential election fixed electoral roll. However, the period to revise the fixed electoral roll ended on June 8, making a special regulation necessary to ensure that unregistered citizens will be eligible to vote.

Ridha said the issuance of a regulation-in-lie-of-law that would enable unregistered voters to vote in the presidential election was necessary.

"A special regulation that will enable citizen's to use their ID cards as a requirement to vote even though they are not registered needs to be issued before the presidential election," he said.

Meanwhile, the youth organization Pemuda Pancasila filed a report to the commission Tuesday about allegations of a fraudulent electoral roll involving 2.2 million fictitious voters in East Java, and called for a revision of the list.

Lanyala, head of the organization's East Java branch, said Tuesday the electoral roll contained names of citizens listed twice with different identification numbers.

"There are 2.2 million fictitious voters out of the overall population of around 29 million voters," he said. (fmb)