The Indonesian election committee has decided to allow all Indonesian nationals not registered on the electoral rolls (DPT) to cast their vote in the presidential election Wednesday. Those willing to cast their ballot will only have to show their Iqama or passport to the committee at the polling station, said Dharma Kirty, information officer at the Indonesian consulate here. The decision came after the country's Constitutional Court on Monday ruled in favor of unregistered voters. The court made the ruling in response to two petitions seeking a review of the election laws. The judicial review request was submitted by Refly Harun and Maheswara Prabandono and concerned Article 28 and Article 111 point (1) of Law No. 42 / 2008 on Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections. The Constitutional Court judges said that Article 28 and Article 111 of the presidential election law were constitutional as long as they were intended to include unregistered citizens with certain condition. That condition is that unregistered citizens on the electoral rolls can exercise their voting right by producing their valid ID cards or valid passports.
