The commission was set to finish the seat distribution on Friday after several cancellations, but only completed the seat distribution in West Java and Aceh, two of six troubled provinces.

In the meantime, the polling body also confirmed that Agung Laksono, House of Representatives Speaker and deputy chairman of the Golkar Party, would leave parliament as he was defeated in his electoral district in East Jakarta.

Speaking to the press during the break of a plenary session Friday, KPU Chairman Abdul Hafiz Anshary said the plenary session would continue throughout night to complete the seat allocation in four other troubled provinces of Central Java, East Java, East Nusa Tenggara and South Kalimantan.

He pledged that the KPU and the Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) would jointly announce the final results of the legislative election Monday.

The polling body has to review the seat distribution after the Constitutional Court annulled the way it allocated a part of seats from remaining votes from electoral districts.

The KPU allocated the seats in the troubled provinces in the plenary session with a consultation with Deputy Head of the Constitutional Court Abdul Mukti Fajar.

“We have to finish it tonight because there are not many seats left,” KPU member Andi Nurpati said.
She cited examples in East Java and Central Java where there were 11 and three remaining seats respectively to be distributed.

However they had yet to determine the time to announce the results, “because we need to arrange our administration documents first”.

She added if the calculation and placement of the elected legislative members had been finished they would also re-check the seat allocation and placement of the legislative members to avoid mistakes.

The Supreme Court on June 18 annulled the results of the April legislative election's second-phase vote counting, because the KPU had not adhered to the seat distribution regulations as stipulated by the 2008 general election law.

The misinterpretation led to invalid seat distribution that has benefited major parties, including Golkar and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, and reduced small parties' seat gains.

The faulty counting method also allowed top parties failing to obtain any seats in the first phase to win seats in the second phase.

Many small parties have also lost many seats in provincial, regency and municipal legislative councils as the seats went to major parties thank to the misinterpretation of the law.

Concerning seat allocation in regions that carried out re-election sand recounting of the legislative election result, Andi said the KPU had yet to determine the schedule because they still needed to wait for the copy of the Constitutional Court’s ruling.

To date the KPU has submitted the vote counting results of South Nias in North Sumatra and Batam mayoralty in Riau Islands province for the House.

The KPU has been under fire for its poor performance in organizing the general elections, including the registration of eligible voters.

This has led to an increasing demand for the dismissal of its seven members.

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