Indonesia is well on track for the presidential election scheduled on July 8, the General Election Commission (KPU) Chairman Abdul Hafiz Anshary said.

Abdul Hafiz said that the KPU has learned much from the heavily-flawed April 9 legislative elections.

It now has a double-checking system in place for registering the approximately 176 million eligible voters nationwide, he added.

Political parties contended in the legislative elections complained about flaws in the KPU-endorsed voter list which they said incorrect. Millions of eligible voters, they said, were not listed in the KPU's voters list.

The KPU has recruited adequately-trained poll workers at district and subdistrict level and ensured that elections materials have been distributed down to the low-level committees across the country, he said.

"All election materials have been distributed and will arrive in regencies and municipalities on July 1 and at polling stations a day before voting day," the Jakarta Post quoted Tuesday Abdul assaying when he supervised the election logistic in Mataram.

During his tour of duty in the capital city of West Nusa Tenggara province on Monday, the KPU chairman was accompanied by Home Affairs minister Mardianto and the chief of election watchdog, Bawaslu, Nur Hidayat Sardini.

Previously the KPU has received reports on more than 50,000 ballot papers which arrived in damaged condition in Central Java and East Java.

"The KPU keeps the flawed ballot papers and asked the printing companies to print the new ones and sent them back to the two provinces," the KPU official responsible for logistic affairs who was among the entourage, Boradi, said.

The KPU came under fire for mismanaging the legislative elections in April.

Allegations of fraud involving the electoral roll, ballot sent to the wrong areas and 47 million eligible voters not turning out to cast a ballot have all been linked with the KPU preparations for the general elections.

Source: Xinhua