More and more Asian regional civil society organizations resist the coup by the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw). Through the release of the Asia Network for Free Election (ANFREL) as of 2/3 in Bangkok, at least 46 international election and human rights organizations joined forces to reject the Myanmar coup. Through its website, ANFREL continues to invite many parties to join in …
After releasing datatalk.asia, a platform that provides several features for data journalism, now (17/2) the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), with support from USAID through the Regional Support for Elections and Political Transitions or RESPECT, released Asia-Pacific Journal of Elections and Democracy. The management of this international journal is a collaboration with the Djokosoetono Research Center (DRC), a research …
The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) condemns the Myanmar armed forces (Tatmadaw) which carried out a government coup as well as the kidnapping and detention of political opponents (Bangkok, 2/2). The Asian regional election monitoring organization urged Tatmadaw to release the prisoners and all election fraud to be resolved through the electoral court. ANFREL reminded Tatmadaw that a military …
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 …
