Ketum Gelora Anis Matta: Presidential Threshold Causes Polarization Of Society

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Gelora Party Anis Matta assessed that the presidential nomination threshold or "presidential threshold" of 20 percent caused very sharp polarization among the people. until now," said Anis Matta in a written statement quoted by Antara, Thursday, January 6. He also assessed that the imposition of a threshold on presidential nominations has prevented the emergence of national leadership potential. According to Anis Matta, the success of a democracy is not measured by threshold requirements. In addition, according to him, the organizers of the 2019 General Election created an "overload" situation that caused many fatalities up to 900 people. we rule out conspiracy theories, but ang more than 900 people lost their lives than the election organizers. This means that for every single seat of the DPR RI there are almost two lives that are victims, that is a very large number," he said. Anis emphasized that changing the political system through simplification of political parties, presidential elections and simultaneous elections did not necessarily improve the quality of democracy, and gave birth to a government. effective and powerful.

Anis Matta assessed that the very bad experience of democracy should be used as an important lesson for the government and it is one of the indicators that becomes a basic consideration for evaluating the current democratic system.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chairperson of the Gelora Party, Fahri Hamzah, said that the election rules in Indonesia only narrow the opportunities for alternative presidential candidates to emerge from those already known. He views the current electoral system as ignoring the representation of the Indonesian people from various regions.