Yogyakarta – A senior minister said here on Saturday the General Elections Commission (KPU) had the authority to decide regarding indications of legislative candidates' involvement in the former Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).

"If there is indeed a candidate who was involved in PKI, I think the KPU must be able to make a case of it because it is against the law and put it in a wider context such as legal domain," Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhyono said after a seminar on the late General Soedirman.

He said the KPU had to examine the administrative requirements of legislative candidates to see if legal violations had been committed by the candidates concerned.