JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- A tough warning was delivered Friday that Indonesia faced a delay in its elections if parliamentarians failed to meet a deadline to introduce new political laws.

Any change to the scheduled June 7 polls would almost certainly lead to fresh outbreaks of unrest across the country similar to those in May when President Suharto was forced to resign after 32 years of rule.

"If there is no breakthrough and the talks are still deadlocked, I am afraid the January 28 deadline for the passage of the (political) laws will not be met," said Andi Mallarangeng, a member of the government-appointed team charged with drafting such laws.

"And if that happens, elections will be postponed," he told said.

Parliament will be shut all next week, over the end of the Muslim fasting month, and resume work only on January 25.

"When the session resumes on January 25th, we only have three days...that is too short a time to resolve all the issues," he said.

Parliament started debating the draft political laws required to satisfy requirements for the election, on October 2.

Key sticking points in the debate have been:

• the number of seats allocated for the armed forces

• membership of civil servants in the ruling Golkar party

• a proportional system for elections

• composition of the supervisory committee for the elections commission

A special committee, comprising representatives from the three official political parties and members of the armed forces, has been set up to speed up the debate on the political laws. The draft laws would then be put to the entire parliament for approval.

B.J. Habibie

The elections are at the heart of sweeping economic and political reforms promised by President B.J. Habibie when he replaced the autocratic Suharto.

Many are pinning their hopes on the election to usher in an era of greater democracy after decades of rule by despots.

Mallarangeng warned that postponing the elections would shake Habibie's government, raising the prospect of greater chaos in the country.

"Postponing elections beyond June would be dangerous as some groups and people would then ask Habibie to step down. These people tolerated Habibie because they thought he was serious about holding elections," he said.

He said although the delay in passing legislation was the fault of parliamentarians, not Habibie, people would hold the president responsible.

"And if Habibie goes down without elections, what mechanism do we have to replace him?" he said.

Social unrest has flared across the country which many have blamed on the deepening economic crisis as well as political elites instigating violence as they jockey for power.

In the event of a vacuum left by the sudden departure of Habibie, the constitution states that the country would be run by a triumvirate comprising the Ministers of Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Defense, said Mallarangeng.

Reuters contributed to this report.