Modify law on the presidential polls!

Modify law on the presidential polls!
The legislative elections are scheduled for April 9. Presidential elections will follow in July.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/04/07/letters-modify-law-presidential-polls.html

Indonesia has chosen a very good system to elect their President with their 3-tier election system. Their system includes many good points from US and France. The President can, at the most, have two terms of 5 years each and all eligible voters of Indonesia elect the President directly.
In the US, barring exceptions like Ross Perot in 1992, there are only two major parties - the Republican and the Democratic - who field candidates for Presidential elections. The Presidential candidates are chosen on the basis of the results of primaries in each state and the candidate who wins stipulated minimum number of delegates is nominated by their party.
In France any candidate who is sponsored by at least 500 citizens holding elective office as defined by the Institutional Act can contest in the first round of presidential elections. That is how in the 2002 elections, there were 16 candidates in first round with Chirac (20 percent) and Jean-Marie Le Pen (17 percent) fighting the run-off election in second round. Chirac polled 82 percent votes to win the Presidency.
In 2007, there were 12 candidates in first round and Sarkozy (31 percent) and Mme. Royal (26 percent) fought the run-off election in second round wherein Sarkozy polled 53 percent votes to win the Presidency.
In both elections, lowest votes polled were 0.47 percent (Gluckstein) & 0.34 percent (Schivardi).
In Indonesia, the rule for fielding a "pair of candidates" for President and Vice-President says, "The candidate pairs who want to race in the general elections to elect the President and Vice President shall be proposed by a political party or a coalition of political parties which meet the requirements. The political party or a coalition of political parties shall only be able to propose one candidate pair who meets the requirements of having a vote return minimum of 20 percent of valid votes in the national general elections to elect the House of Representatives members."
The 20 percent minimum forces most of the potential presidential candidates to enter into a coalition which makes them dependent upon coalition partners. This defeats the very purpose of an independent president who doesn't owe any favors to any other party/member of the DPR. So the eligibility clause needs to be modified to "3-5 percent of votes in national elections".
Another healthy convention would be created by the above modification. The presidential candidate can then be selected by a member of his own party as a VP candidate. Thus he can be sure of full loyalty from him instead of the present situation wherein the VP suffers from divided loyalty between his President and his party.
I hope the Indonesian lawmakers will take a fresh look at this suggestion. Special thanks to Sadika Hamid from French Embassy for information.
K.B. Kale, Jakarta