The naming of the KPU chief and his fellows as suspects on charges of alleged forgery connected to the West Halmahera election was an administrative error, the National Police says.

"The [National Police] administration mis-typed the word suspect in a letter we sent to the Attorney General's Office. The [administration] should have changed the subject of the letter before sending it," National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. I Ketut Untung Yoga said Wednesday. Ketut added that the administrative office had only one format for letters.

KPU chief Abdul Hafiz Anshary and his fellow commissioners had not been named suspects in the election fraud case, he affirmed. "A letter we issued on the commencement of an investigation doesn't confirm that someone is a suspect," Ketut Untung said. (msa)