More people will stay away from the ballot box in the 2014 elections as public dissatisfaction with political parties grows, an analyst said on Friday.

Burhanuddin Muhtadi, a researcher with the Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI), said the number of people not voting had increased rapidly since the nation's first free elections in 1999.

That year, only 6.3 percent of registered voters did not cast a ballot, but the figure increased to 16 percent in 2004 and 29.1 percent in 2009.

Burhanuddin said while it took the United States 200 years to see voter turnout drop to 60 percent, Indonesia had managed to see turnout dip to 70 percent in just 12 years.