Rumah Pemilu Indonesia Election Portal
Chairman of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu), Rahmat Bagja, reminded the General Election Commission (KPU) to accommodate individual candidate candidates in implementing the Supreme Court (MA) decision regarding the age limit for regional head nominations. Previously, through Decision Number 23 P/HUM/2024, the Supreme Court changed the initial minimum requirement for cagub-cawagub to be 30 years old and cawabup-cawabup to be 25 years old from the time they are appointed as candidates to after inauguration.
“The Supreme Court’s decision must still be implemented with the caveat that it must be enforced against individual candidates as well,” said Rahmat Bagja to journalists in the Menteng area of Central Jakarta (1/7).
According to him, if this rule is implemented, then only candidates supported by political parties will apply, while individual candidates have already registered first. Bagja believes that implementing the Supreme Court’s decision and accommodating individual candidates is important to avoid problems during the upcoming regional election results dispute at the Constitutional Court (MK).
“We hope that the KPU friends will calculate it correctly. “We have been told that the KPU can regulate such matters, and we think this also needs to be discussed with the government and the DPR,” he explained.
Bagja explained that if the Supreme Court’s decision only applied to candidates from political parties, it would violate the principle of equality for participants in the 2024 regional elections. However, he admitted that he did not yet have the right formula for the Supreme Court’s decision to accommodate individual candidates.
“However, the KPU’s friends are the ones who regulate it. “We are conveying our proposal to take into account fellow participants from non-political parties or individual candidates,” he said. []
