Its responsibilities include deciding which parties can contest elections, organising the voting and announcing the results and seats won in the various branches of the government.
Suharto would later form the General Elections Institution by the Presidential Decree Number 3 of 1970.
The Minister of Home Affairs would later hold the position for the chairman of LPU until 1998, when the organization was dissolved and replaced with General Elections Commission.
The Indonesian General Institution is located in a building on Jalan Imam Bonjol 29.
[1] According to the Government Regulations Number 35 of 1985, the seats of the executive council was filled with ministerial posts.