During the 10 years of President Joko Widodo’s administration, there have been many repressive state actions against civil society, ranging from environmental destruction, shrinkage of space and rights for women, workers, and civilians, and an increasing number of corruption cases. …
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Presidential Election Fraud Potentially Repeated in 2024 Regional Elections
The 2024 presidential election has been completed, but it leaves many notes. In its legal considerations, the Constitutional Court (MK) considers that the president supports one of the candidate pairs. In addition, the Constitutional Court views that the distribution of …
Read More »Aspiration Social Audit Results: Pj Governor Must Involve Community in Development
In an effort to maintain transparency and accountability in governance, the Civil Society Alliance for Transparency, Inclusion and Democracy (Aspirasi) monitors the performance of acting governors in 25 provinces. The social audit monitoring is motivated by the non-transparent and non-participatory …
Read More »Perludem Highlights the Quality of Evidence in the 2024 PHPU Presidential Election
The Constitutional Court (MK) rejected the Presidential Election Results Dispute (PHPU Pilpres) application submitted by the presidential (capres) and vice presidential (cawapres) candidate pairs Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar (AMIN) and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD. The Constitutional Court, through Decision Number 1/PHPU.PRES-XXII/2024 and …
Read More »PHPU for Presidential Election Recommends Improvements to the Electoral System
The process of disputing the results of the 2024 general election for president and vice president (PHPU Pilpres) has been completed after the Constitutional Court (MK) read out decisions No. 1/PHPU.PRES-XXII/2024 and No. 2/PHPU.PRES-XXII/2024. The case filed by Anies Rasyid …
Read More »Political Reform: The Key to the Future of Indonesian Democracy After the 2024 Election
Ahead of the Constitutional Court’s (MK) decision regarding the General Election Results Dispute (PHPU), a number of experts predict that Indonesian democracy will experience serious challenges in the next elected government. This is based on the many rules of the …
Read More »Perludem Reveals Projections for Women’s Representation in the DPR After the 2024 Election
The Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) released a study of the 2024 election results on the projection of women’s representation in the People’s Representative Council (DPR). As a result, the figure for women’s representation is projected to increase to …
Read More »Measuring the Proportionality of the 2024 Election Results
The General Election Commission (KPU) determined the results of the 2024 elections on March 20, but there is still disproportionality in the seats in the election results. There were at least 17.3 million wasted votes from 18 political parties participating …
Read More »In the Shadow of Hoaxes: Challenges to Democracy in the 2024 Election
Currently, the public is still considered vulnerable to information disruption during the 2024 election series. This disruption has an impact on trust in democracy, election management institutions, and election administration. In 2023, before the voting took place, the Indonesian Anti-Defamation …
Read More »Democracy After Elections and the Challenges of Institutional Reform
It is considered that the results of the 2024 election do not guarantee that democracy in Indonesia will run well and produce an effectively connected national, regional, and local government. This is because the democratic transition in Indonesia was not …
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