REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The General Elections Commission (KPU) has announced that seven regions have less than two tickets to contest for the simultaneous regional head elections (Pilkada) scheduled on December 9, 2015.

The seven regions were Tasikmalaya in West Java; Surabaya, Blitar, and Pacitan in East Java; Mataram in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB); Samarinda in East Kalimantan; and North Timor Tengah in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), KPU Chairman Husni Kamil Manik noted here, Monday evening.

Regional head elections in the aforementioned seven regions have to be postponed as they failed to increase the number of candidates even after holding the second round of the registration period on August 1-3, 2015.

The first round of the registration period for the regional head candidates took place in 269 regions across Indonesia on July 26-28, 2015, and has run smoothly and peacefully, in general.

The Indonesian government is scheduled to hold Pilkada on December 9, 2015, to elect governors in nine provinces, district heads in 224 districts, and mayors in 36 cities.

Indonesia has 34 provinces, 420 districts, and 94 cities. A province is headed by a governor, a district by a district head, and a city by a mayor, according to data published in early 2014.

The number of regional head candidates that have registered with the KPU until July 30, 2015, increased to 827 tickets, include 145 incumbents, Manik stated recently.

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