Rumah Pemilu Indonesia Election Portal
The 2024 regional elections are underway. Until August 19, 2024, prospective individual candidates will fulfill the support requirements in the form of supporting documents and Resident Identity Cards (KTP) to the General Election Commission (KPU).
In the midst of the ongoing stages, the Supreme Court (MA) issued Decision No. 23P/HUM/2024, which ordered the KPU to change the minimum age requirement of 30 years at the time of determining the candidate pair (paslon) for governor and deputy governor to that at the time of the inauguration of the elected candidate pair. . This decision is considered unenforceable because it will disrupt the principles of justice for individual and political party Pilkada participants.
“The individual nomination stage has already begun. The rules should be the same as those applied to individual candidates and those applied on party lines. So, the KPU must have a sense of justice. Don’t be treated differently. “Individual candidates have condition A, parties have condition B,” said the Executive Director Perludem, Khoirunnisa Nur Agustyati, in the online discussion “Criticizing the Supreme Court’s Decision regarding the Age of Regional Head Candidates,” which was broadcast via the KBR News YouTube account on Wednesday (5/6).
Furthermore, Khoirunnisa believes that the minimum age requirement of 30 years, which was moved to the inauguration stage for selected candidates, does not automatically guarantee the participation of young people as candidates in the Pilkada. Candidate pairs for regional head-deputy regional heads from political party lines must be supported by a minimum of 20 percent of regional legislative seats. This requirement is not easy.
“Well, who is the young person who has support? Which young person can get that modality if he is not close to the party with power?” So, this decision is a tweaking of the requirements for someone’s interests, so they can enter the regional election competition process,” concluded Khoirunnisa. []
