An election activist from Kemitraan, Wahidah Suaib Wittoeng, explains the result of his research on political party data in the Political Party Information System (Sipol). The result of the research is that there is no standardized mechanism and procedure in inputting party’s data into Sipol. For example, some political parties only include the top tier managers of their organization when …

The Elections Commission (KPU) receives many criticisms because of implementing the Political Party Information System (Sipol) in the political party registration process for the 2019 National Elections. Many of those critics say, the implementation of Sipol has no legal basis in the Elections Law. They also complain about how the Sipol website and servers are difficult to access. The Association …

The Election Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) has broader authority for enforcing regulations in the upcoming Concurrent Elections of 2019. The broad authority is not only given to the central Bawaslu, but also to all its subsidiaries in regencies/municipalities. Bawaslu at regency/municipality level now have the authority to punish any electoral violation through their Integrated Law Enforcement Center (Gakkumdu), handling administrative violation, …

A member of the Elections Commission (KPU), Pramono Ubaid, says that the limited mandates and authorities provided by the government for KPU in the Elections Law have limited KPU’s options to perform their duties. For example, Article 195 paragraph (2) of the Law 7/2017 only allows KPU to delimit electoral areas at regency/municipality level. In 2014, however, KPU had the …

Government has agreed to increase the subsidy for political party in the National Government Budget (APBN) and the Regional Government Budget (APBD). Starting in 2018, political party will receive Rp. 1,000 of political subsidy for every vote they get in election. Previously, they only get Rp. 108. “The Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, has agreed on this proposal and …

The Chairman of the Elections Commission (KPU), Arief Budiman, says that members of the Parliament have passed the Bill for the new Elections Law on July 21st 2017 and the Minister of Law and Human Rights has authorized it as well. The new Law is numbered as Law No.7/2017. “We have received the news that members of the Parliament have …

In the public discussion titled “Evaluation on the Jakarta Local Election of 2017, the Director of the Center for Political Studies (Puskapol) of University of Indonesia, Aditya Perdana, says that there has been a change of trend in campaigning in the 2017 Local Elections. Many candidates started to focus on online or internet campaigning instead of the more conventional face-to-face …

The Elections Commission (KPU) of Jakarta held a public evaluation on the 2017 Jakarta Local Election process at Aryaduta Hotel, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday (07/25). According to a press release published by KPU, KPU has imposed six administrative sanctions to candidate number 1, the campaign team of candidate number 3, one government employee, and one member of the Election Voting …

At the end of the plenary meeting session on the new Elections Law Bill at the House of Parliament, Indonesian government, represented by the Minister of Home Affairs, Tjahjo Kumolo, expresses government’s position on five crucial issues on the Bill. Government has changed its position regarding two issues, while maintaining its previous position on three other issues. On the issue …

Migrant Care urges the members of the Special Committee for Elections Law Bill to allocate additional seats for overseas voters. Wahyu Susilo, the executive director of Migrant Care, an NGO which focuses on the protection of migrant workers, argues that the addition of parliamentary seats from 560 to 575 will mean nothing if it excludes overseas constituency. “Members of the …