What Is A Closed Proportional Election System? Here Are The Excess And Lacks

YOGYAKARTA - Ahead of Indonesia's democratic party in 2024, talks about the electoral system are heating up again. A number of parties filed a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court so that the electoral system was changed from open proportional to closed. So what is a closed proportional electoral system?

The discourse of a closed proportional electoral system has led to pros and cons in society. In holding elections in previous years, Indonesia used an open proportional electoral system. Then what is a closed proportional electoral system and its shortcomings and advantages?

The closed proportional electoral system is the general election system that is carried out by choosing only political parties. So people do not choose the names of candidates for people's representatives who run in elections. The public will only vote on the symbols or pictures of available political parties.

When implementing a closed proportional electoral system, only the list of parties is displayed in the ballot. Voters cannot see who the candidates for the people's representatives are personally. So the elected representatives of the people will be determined by their political parties based on serial numbers. For example, when a political party carries five candidates and gets two votes, only two names in the top rank will get the seats.

In contrast to the open proportional electoral system, where people can directly choose the names of individual candidates for representatives of the people. This electoral system has been implemented in general elections in Indonesia at previous events.

The closed proportional electoral system chooses a number of advantages, but there are also some shortcomings.

Demikianlah review tentang apa itu sistem pemiluran proportional tertutup serta kekurangan dan kelebihannya. Sampai saat ini masyarakat Indonesia maupun para pejabat tinggi negara masih menunggu keputusan MK mengenai sistem pemilu yang akan digunakan di tahun 2024.

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