Jakarta/Bandung/Makassar/Jambi – With the legislative elections less than a week away, the eligible voter lists are still unavailable to the public in some areas of the country.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) had set an April 1 deadline for distribution of the revised voter lists to political parties at regency and village levels.

"As of Thursday, most of our branch offices had not received soft copies of the voter lists," Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P election) strategist Arief Wibowo told The Jakarta Post.

He said this delay meant many of the party's district and village offices would not be able to make the lists available to the public.

The KPU had ordered all regional polls bodies to verify the permanent voter lists by deleting double or multiple entries, "ghost voters" and unrecorded names by April 30.

Thanks to a government regulation-in-lieu-of-law and mounting demand for revision, the polls body fixed the final voter list following discoveries of fraud in some provinces. Almost 200,000 voters were added to the revised list, mostly in East Java. But the changes did not satisfy all the political parties contesting the April 9 polls.

Poll watchdogs and observers have warned that confusion over the voter list could spark disputes following the elections if they remain unaddressed.

In West Java, nearly 38,000 voters were deleted from the list, bringing the final number of eligible voters there to almost 30,000,000.

Head of West Java elections commission Ferry Kurnia Rizkiansyah said Thursday his office had distributed the lists to political party offices at a district level across the province. "We have given the final list of voters to the 38 parties contesting the elections in West Java and are now waiting for feedback," he said.

The Jambi elections commission axed over 2,400 names due to double registration, underage listings, wrong addresses and deaths. There are now more than 2,000,000 people eligible to vote on election day.

Commission chairwoman Ratna Dewi said the polls body would continue to verify the voter list and allow polling station officials to cross out names that are unaccounted for.

But not all regional poll commissions followed the KPU order. Herman, a staff member at the South Aceh polls body, said his office did not distribute the voter lists to political parties as nothing had changed in the data.

South Sulawesi elections commission member Nusrah Azis said his office had opted not to make changes to the voter list in order to avoid confusion, and would hand it to political parties soon. Verification was conducted, but the revised data would only be used for the presidential election in July.

KPU member Syamsulbahri said there would no longer be announcements of permanent voter lists nationwide, but asked the parties to keep updating the lists. He added that the voter lists should also go to party witnesses at polling stations.