The Elections Law No. 7 of Year 2017 (Law 7/2017) mandates a new authority for the Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) in enforcing the elections law. Other than acting as a monitoring body, now Bawaslu also acts as an institution that has the authority to decide over an electoral violation case and put down the sanction. Didik Suproyanto, a former member …
The General Secretary of the Elections Commission of Indonesia (KPU), Arif Rahman Hakim, tells his experience in managing elections in Indonesia. According to Arif, managing elections in Indonesia is not as easy as it seems. Here is our interview with Arif. What have you learned from your experience in managing elections in Indonesia? From management perspective, managing elections in Indonesia …
On Tuesday, November 21st 2017, members of the Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) pay a visit to the House of Representatives to consult the newly-issued Bawaslu’s Regulations (Perbawaslu) on the use of Integrated Center for Elections Law Enforcement (Sentra Gakkumdu) with members of the Commission II of the Parliament. The new Perbawaslu contains several novel provisions. Here’s what Fritz Edward Siregar, …
The Executive Director for Elections and Democracy, Titi Anggraini, has just been appointed as one of Democracy Ambassadors to champion study on Global State of Democracy by International IDEA, a think-tank organization based in Stockholm, Sweden. Titi is appointed alongside other prominent figures, such as former president of Latvia, Vaira Vike Freiberga, and former president of Costa Rica, Laura Chincilla. …
The political party registration process receives evaluations from many elections experts and activists. On eof the experts who provide his evaluation is Khairul Fahmi, a researcher from the Center for Constitution Study (Pusako) of Andalas University. Here is the transcript of interview between Khairul and Rumah Pemilu. In the Elections Law No.7/2017, it is mentioned that there are four stages …
The Elections Commission (KPU) has closed the 1×24 hours of political party registration extension period on Tuesday (10/17). At 24:00 local time, the registration process was concurrently closed by all KPUs all over Indonesia, including the Independent Elections Commission (KIP) of Aceh. On that same day, KPU also launched Political Party Information System (Sipol) for the first time. Based on …
The Initial phase of the 2019 National Elections has practically begun when the Elections Commission (KPU) officially started the political party registration process on Tuesday (10/03). KPU will refer to the KPU Regulations No. 11/2007 on Registration, Verification, and Approval of Participant Party in Elections as the legal basis for this registration process. KPU uses Political Party Information System (Sipol) …
The new Elections Law contains a new provision which imposes that the Elections Commission must provide transparent ballot boxes for election process. Many people have suspicion that the provision was a special request by the Parliament members before the Bill was passed. The provision is also heavily criticized. According to activists from the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) and …
Members of the Parliament and the government finally agreed on the content of the new Elections Law Bill on predawn Friday (07/21) and they will immediately pass the Bill. Activists from the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) argue that the would-be Laws is completed without providing any significant improvement. All the regulations that have been agreed upon by members …
The draft for the new Elections Law has been completed by the Parliament’s Special Comittee for the Elections Law Bill. Both members of the Committee and executive government have agreed on many issues, save for five crucial issues regarding election system. These five issues, which are presidentiial threshold, parliamentary threshold, seats allocation per electoral area, open-list proportional system, and votes-to-seats …
