Camelia Pasandaran – The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) says it will propose an honorary council to reform the nation's electoral management system after finding numerous problems with this year's presidential vote.

"There were many violations of election laws during the process," said Bawaslu head Nur Hidayat Sardini on Saturday after the General Elections Commission (KPU) officially declared incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the winner.

One of the biggest problems, said Nur, is the recently revealed fact that the KPU secretly revised the voter list on July 6, just two days before the election.

"It shows that the KPU totally failed in election management," Nur said. "We reminded them long before the election, when they were updating the temporary voter list, that they should be careful to include all eligible voters."

Jeirry Sumampow, national coordinator of People's Voter Education Network, said the problems compromised the legitimacy of the election. "The results have no legal weight because they are based on a final voter list that is inaccurate and illegitimate," he argued.

The campaigns of Yudhoyono's challengers, former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, said Saturday they would challenge the election in court. But the head of the KPU said he was confident the results would be upheld.