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he General Elections Commission (KPU) officially finalized the final voter list (DPT) for the 2019 simultaneous legislative and presidential elections in a plenary meeting on Saturday, with 192.84 million people on the voter roll.

The 192.84 million consists of 190.8 million domestic voters and 2 million overseas voters, an increase of about 2 million from the final voter list in the 2014 general election. The number of men and women voters is roughly equal, at around 95 million each.

The plenary meeting, held at the Menara Peninsula Hotel in West Jakarta, was attended by members of the KPU, the Elections Supervisory Agency, as well as representatives from political parties, presidential candidate campaign teams and election watchdogs.

This was the second and final correction to the DPT, which had previously been criticized for having a large number of duplicate names. The final list added around 6 million voters to the 185 million registered in the first correction.

In September, the coalition supporting presidential candidate and Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto claimed to have found 25 million duplicate voter names registered on the temporary voters list (DPS) and requested that the KPU postpone finalizing the DPT.

Political parties had since been granted access to check the list, and on Thursday, Gerindra secretary-general Ahmad Muzani said there was still potentially 1.6 million duplicate names on the DPT. Those “problem” voters have since been combed through by the KPU and the parties before Saturday’s meeting.

“The KPU is open to notes, suggestions and criticism from wherever and whoever,” KPU chairman Arief Budiman said in a statement on Saturday.

The DPT is important as it will affect the logistical preparations for the elections. Every polling station will be supplied with ballots according to the number of voters registered at every polling station, plus an additional 2.5 percent to cater for any unregistered voters who may show up.

According to the minutes of the plenary meeting, there will be 809,500 polling stations across 34 provinces with an additional 783 overseas polling stations located in 130 Indonesian embassies and consulates around the world. Each polling station has a maximum of 300 registered voters.

KPU commissioner Pramono Ubaid confirmed that the DPT would no longer be subject to change, but that citizens would still be able to be registered on the supplementary voter lists.

“There’s still the DPTb [additional voter list] and the DPK [special voter list], so everyone’s right to vote will be accommodated,” he told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.

The DPTb consists of voters who are already registered on the DPT, but wish to vote in a different polling station than the one that they are registered at. These voters include students studying away from home, prisoners and disaster victims.

The DPK, meanwhile, consists of citizens who have not been registered on the DPT but are eligible to vote. These voters will be allowed to vote between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on voting day, provided that the polling station has enough ballots left.

Pramono added that the detailed breakdown of the DPT would be made available to the public sometime in January.