Special Coverage

Voters turnout in Banten’s Provincial Election of 2017 has been increasing compared to previous provincial election, but it’s not quite high enough. Many voters find the local election in Banten uninteresting because the elected officials always come from a family …

Members of the Association of Professors on Constitutional and Administrative Law (APHTN-HAN) state that Indonesia is currently experiencing a political anomaly. For example, the Special Committee for the new Elections Law Bill often proposes ideas that are not compatible with …

Elections management bodies (EMBs), especially the Election Commission (KPU), have a responsibility allocation scheme that represents a pyramid. KPU at regency/municipality level has the biggest responsibility compared to KPU at province and national level. In the context of concurrent elections, …

The discussion processes for the new Elections Law Bill were conducted in closed and exclusive meetings. Discussions regarding new Elections Law in the past were always accessible for the public. For example, journalists are used to be allowed to cover …

The National Election Commission (KPU RI) conducted a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) to discuss about the updating system for Voters’ List with members of KPU from all over Indonesia, election activists, and election experts (05/05). During the FGD, KPU RI …

Public participation in monitoring and reporting electoral violations in 2017 Local Elections is still low. According to the data published by the Election Monitoring Body (Bawaslu), the quality and the quantity of report from the public is still below expectation. …

The Chief of the Special Committee for the new Elections Law Bill, Muhammad Lukman Edy, confirms the rumor that he and his team might allocate some budget from the National State Budget to finance the salary of election observer representing …

The inequality in gender representation in Parliament has no linear correlation with the general quality of democracy in a country. For example, the representation of women in Indonesian parliament is currently below 20 percent, but the quality of democracy in …

During a public discussion titled “Kartini Talks about Elections” in Jakarta (04/20), members of the Caucus for Women Politics in Indonesia (KPPI) share their experience when participating in elections as candidates. Two female politicians say that they have been traumatized …

Circa one hundred years ago, Kartini wrote on one of her letters: “Go, seize your dream. Fight for your future. Fight for the happiness of thousands of people currently living under the oppression of unjust law and false ideologies that …