Action against the media should only be taken by the licensing authority and MACRA, and not by the police.

Composition of management boards of MBC and TVM should ensure the confidence of election stakeholders.

Multi-Party Liaison Committee meetings should be held more regularly in the lead up to elections, and should include the participation of independent candidates.

Training should be provided for Parties and Candidates in a number of areas including (i) policy development, (ii) manifesto preparation, (iii) communication with
voters, (iv) the role and rights of monitors (for example, on complaint mechanisms).

Sufficient resources should be provided to enable civil society to conduct civic and voter education and election observation in a comprehensive manner.

The MEC should take steps to increase the representation of women in all levels of the election administration.

The current level of educational requirements for candidates excludes a large portion of the population and effectively discriminates against women and indigenous minorities. No education requirements should be necessary to be a candidate for Regency/City DPRD Elections and consideration should be given to lowering them for other non- Presidential Elections.

Health requirements for presidential candidates should be abolished. However, the health status of candidates should be independently assessed and made public.

The requirements for political parties to participate in future Legislative Elections should be lowered. All parties should be allowed to stand again in the electoral districts where they have won seats in previous elections. At a minimum, consideration should also be given to maintaining the thresholds applied for the 2004 elections.

The envisaged threshold of 15% of the DPR seats or the 20% of the DPR valid votes as a requirement for the nomination of candidate pairs in future Presidential Elections is too high. Consideration should be given to either keeping it at the present level or increasing it to a maximum of 5%.

For the second round of Presidential Elections, provisions for a full campaign period should be enacted.

The mechanisms for adjudicating electoral violations and election-related complaints should be revised. Election stakeholders should be granted the right to appeal KPU
decisions

The existing electoral laws should be revised in order to remove inconsistencies, ambiguities and repetitions. Preferably, the different election laws should be unified in a
single electoral code containing both general provisions and separate chapters for each level of election.

The current electoral calendar should be reorganised for logistical reasons and in the light of the anticipated elections for Heads of Provinces and Regency/Cities. Preferably,
consideration should be given to staggering the elections with a two-year interval. One possibility could be to schedule National Legislative and Presidential Elections in one year and all other lower level elections in a different year. Alternatively, the elections could be staggered by dividing them between Legislative ones and Presidential/Heads of Provinces and Regency/City Elections.

National elections should be funded exclusively by the central state budget.

Proper attention should be paid to voter education in planning future electoral budgets. Priority should be given to concerted and longer-term efforts with larger involvement of grass-roots local organisations.

Ballot paper design should be made simpler and more user-friendly. Serial numbering and security features should be introduced at least for national election ballots.

The overall number of polling stations should be reduced by increasing the number of voters per polling stations. A national average of 600 voters per polling station would be
ideal, where feasible.

Posting of election results at all levels should be enforced.

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) should have the authority and the means to effectively regulate electronic media activity during elections.

Provisions should be established for a standard amount of free time to be allocated to parties and presidential candidate pairs by state and commercial broadcast media duringelections.

"The wide variety of norms of different levels and nature (Law, Regulations, Codes of Conduct, Directives, Instructions, etc.) sometimes creates confusion as to which rule
should prevail. Some Directives adopted by the NEC, in particular the one related to campaign activities and the one on the ""quick action"" procedure should be incorporated in
the Law."

The division of responsibilities between the NEC and the Courts with regards to dealing with cases of a penal nature but politically connected should be clarified. Eventually,
when sufficient trust in the judiciary will exist in Cambodia, the Courts should be fully in charge of penal offences related to the elections, the NEC only remaining in charge of
implementing the administrative part of the judgements, e.g. removal from voter list.

As the Law on Commune Administration foresees that the Ministry of Interior should issue an act specifying how Village Chiefs should be selected, one should use this
opportunity to better regulate their role and responsibilities, inter alia during election processes.

The Election Law should be amended to define the role of “alternate candidates” clearing their position and when and under which circumstances they replace outgoing members ofthe National Assembly.