Febriamy Hutapea, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Presidential candidates, politicians and analysts broadly welcomed Monday's Constitutional Court ruling aimed at ensuring millions of additional people will be able to exercise their right to vote on Wednesday.

Prabowo Subianto, former President Megawati Sukarnoputri's running mate in her new bid for the top office, said he wanted to thank the court for its consideration in allowing people who had been left off the voters list to use their identity cards or passports to qualify to vote.

However, he was still keen for a reopening of the final voters list, which General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Abdul Hafiz Anshary had promised to provide for inspection. "We're invited to review the voters list along with commission members," Prabowo said.

Fellow candidate, current Vice President Jusuf Kalla, said the court's decision was in line with what voters wanted. His campaign team would now focus on finding duplicate entries in the voters list and monitoring for irregularities in the vote counting.

Presidential spokesman Andi Malarangeng, a member of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's campaign team, said that he thoroughly supported the court's decision and had asked the KPU to widely advertise the change so that people would know about it in time for Wednesday's vote.

Now that the ruling had been made, Andi said he also hoped there would be no further talk of postponing the election to sort out the flawed voters list. Both Megawati's and Kalla's campaign teams had hinted at making such a request on Sunday night.

Hafiz said he also appreciated the court's ruling, although the KPU had yet to finish making plans to implement it.

"We're still discussing the technical methods of allowing people to use their identity cards," Hafiz said. "We hope that people will use an original and proper document."

KPU secretary general Suripto Bambang Setiadi said the commission would probably not print additional ballot papers because it could not predict the increase in demand from the new ruling.

"We only follow the Presidential Election Law, so we only print ballot papers based on the numbers on the final voters list, plus an additional 2 percent," he said.

Separately, Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said that the country had a duty to guarantee people's constitutional right to vote. Although the KPU has been mandated to manage the election, the sultan said that the government, particularly the president, should be responsible.

At the April 9 legislative elections, the sultan said he had enabled college students in Yogyakarta to cast their votes by showing their identity cards, allowing about 30,00 extra people to vote.

"Such an initiative should come from the KPU itself, not from a regional government like us," he said.

Ichsanuddin Noorsy, a public policy analyst, said the court's ruling was the right decision, but the KPU's poor performance in managing the voters list had already been noted by foreign politicians and analysts.