8 DPR Political Parties Ask The Constitutional Court To Fix The Open Proportional Election System

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The eight factions of political parties (political parties) in the DPR have requested that the Constitutional Court (MK) continue to implement an open proportional system in the 2024 General Election, following the alleged leak of the Constitutional Court's decision related to the judicial review of the legislative member election system that has been circulating recently.

This was conveyed during a press conference for eight parliamentary parties to reaffirm their stance to reject the closed proportional system in the 2024 General Election.

"So we ask that the system remains open," said Chairman of the Golkar Party faction of the DPR Kahar Muzakir as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, May 30.

Because, he said, the current election stage process is already underway, especially since the political parties participating in the election have given up the list of candidates (DCS) for legislative members to the General Election Commission (KPU).

"Every political party of the candidates is from the Regency/City DPRD, the DPR RI has approximately 20 thousand people. So if there are 15 political parties, there are 300 thousand (people). Well, they will lose their constitusional rights if they use a closed system," he said.

Chairman of the DPR Democratic Party Faction Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono (Ibas) also emphasized support for an open proportional system.

"We support an open proportional system. We don't want to get candidates for members of the Indonesian House of Representatives such as buying cats in sacks," he said.

He reminded the constitutional judges to remain consistent with an open proportional system in deciding lawsuits related to the electoral system.

"We encourage, remind the judges of the Constitutional Court to remain consistent and see the time frame of the time so that we focus so that in the future we can hold ethical democracy events, which are jurdil (honest and fair), transparent," he said.

Ibas said rumors of the leaking of the Constitutional Court's decision that would reimplement a closed proportional system were a reminder to the public so that they asked the public not to rule it out.

"The testimony of Prof. Denny (Denny Indrayana) is a reminder that we don't fall asleep while we are all trying to compete in a healthy manner," said Ibas.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the NasDem Party faction in the DPR, Roberth Rouw, asked President Joko Widodo to support the Constitutional Court not to issue a decision that would make the political situation noisy because the election process had been going on half way.

"We also ask the President to support what is the hope of the community. This is not just our hope, but this is the hope of the public for this election to be open because it is the right of the people," he said.

The Deputy Chairperson of Gerindra Habiburokhman who sits on Commission III of the DPR reminded that the DPR also has a number of legislative powers if the Constitutional Court insists on deciding the lawsuit regarding the electoral system.

"We will also remind that our legislature also has the authority. If the Constitutional Court insists on breaking this (closed proportional system), we will also use our authority, as well as in the context of budgeting," he said.

The eight representatives of political party factions in parliament who held a joint press conference were the Golkar Party, Gerindra Party, NasDem Party, National Awakening Party (PKB), Democrat Party, Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), National Mandate Party (PAN), and United Development Party (PPP).

Only the PDI-P (PDIP) did not participate in the joint press conference because it supported the implementation of a closed proportional election system.