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The Constitutional Court’s decision, which added legal norms to the requirements for presidential and vice presidential nominations in the election law, made the MK even further away from constitutional justice. After 20 years of reform, a number of decisions illustrate …

The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) published an updated report on the situation in Myanmar. During May 17-23, many events took place. However, armed clashes between soldiers of the military junta and massive civilian resistance troops occurred in various regions. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …