Jakarta – Indonesia's General Elections Commission (KPU) Chairman Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin expressed hope that people in the provinces of Maluku, North Sulawesi and Papua would not boycott the 2004 general elections.

"We hope the elections would run well and people in Maluku, North Sulawesi and Papua could accept the reality," he said on Wednesday.

He was responding to a statement by the Maluku Regional Elections Commission (KPUD) which had threatened to boycott the elections by not submitting its list of legislative candidates following the government's and the House of Representatives (DPR)'s failure to amend the elections law particularly clauses on the number of seats in the parliament.