Anies Asks For An Open Proportional Election System To Be Maintained

JAKARTA - Anies Baswedan will ask that the open proportional general election system (election) be maintained.

"The open proportional system must be maintained," said Anies, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, May 30.

This follows the statement of former Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights (Wamenkumham) Denny Indrayana who claimed to have received information about the Constitutional Court's decision regarding the legislative election system which will return to a closed proportional system.

According to Anies, the proportional electoral system opens up to provide opportunities for the people in determining the future Indonesian leadership candidates. This is because decision-making is in the hands of the people.

"The opportunity for the people to determine their candidates should not be removed because that is an indicator that power is in the hands of the people," he said.

Anies admitted that he was grateful that democracy in Indonesia was progressing where the existing political parties (political parties) offered a number of candidates for leaders to be elected so that the public had the opportunity to determine who the people would choose.

"That is the belief to represent. That is why the proportional open describes the progress of our democracy," he added.

Meanwhile, Anies continued, if the electoral system becomes proportionally closed, then Indonesia will return to an era before democracy where candidates will be determined by the party.

"People cannot determine the person. A setback for democracy," Anies added.

Previously, Denny Indrayana denied the issue of the leak of the Constitutional Court's (MK) decision in case Number: 114/PUU-XX/2022 regarding the lawsuit against an open proportional system in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections.

"No verdict has been leaked because we all know that there has been no decision," said Denny in a statement received in Jakarta, Tuesday (30/5).

Denny explained that he chose the phrase "get information" and did not "get leaks". In addition, he claimed that he wrote "MK will decide".

"It's still 'will', it hasn't been decided yet," he added.

Denny emphasized that there was no leak of state secrets in the message he conveyed to the public.

He emphasized that the secret of the Constitutional Court's decision is of course in the institution, while the information he obtains is not from the Constitutional Court, not from constitutional judges or other elements in the Constitutional Court.

In his explanation, Denny had mentioned the tweet of the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menkopolhukam) Mahfud MD who used the phrase "info A1".

Denny straightened it out that he did not use the term "information from A1" because the phrase contained the meaning of classified information that was often from intelligence.

Through his explanation, Denny expressed hope that the Constitutional Court's decision would not return the proportional electoral system to a closed one. According to him, the choice of the legislative election system is not the authority of the trial process in the Constitutional Court, but the realm of the legislation process in parliament.