DPR And Government Agree On The Terms For Winning The 50 Percent Plus 1 DKJ Regional Election

JAKARTA - The Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR together with the government have agreed that the stipulation of the governor and deputy governor of the Special Region of Jakarta (DKJ) will later be directly elected through the regional head election (Pilkada) with a vote of more than 50 percent or 50 percent plus 1.

"So we can decide, yes, we are for a permanent election, 50 plus 1," said Chairman of the DPR Baleg Supratman Andi Agtas when reading the final decision at the working committee meeting (panja) to discuss the problem inventory list (DIM) of the DKJ Draft Law (RUU) as reported by ANTARA, Monday, March 18.

The decision was taken after seven factions and the DPD agreed with the government's proposal.

Only two factions want the winner of the Jakarta regional elections to be determined based on the most votes, such as the regional elections in other provinces of Indonesia.

Two disagreed, then others agreed, "he said.

The DPR also agreed with the government's proposal regarding the mechanism for the DKJ election to be carried out in two rounds if there were no candidate pairs who received 50 percent plus 1 votes in the first round.

In addition, the implementation of the DKJ regional elections will be carried out according to the requirements and procedures regulated in the laws and regulations.

It is known that the decision annulled the decision of the DIM discussion committee for the DKJ Bill which was held on Monday afternoon, where the DPR and the government previously agreed on a mechanism for determining the governor and deputy governor of DKJ through the regional elections with the most voting systems so that only one round was held.

Thus, the determination of the governor and deputy governor of DKJ through a 50 percent plus 1 mechanism of vote acquisition will be the same as Law Number 29 of 2007 concerning the Provincial Government of the Special Capital City of Jakarta as the Capital City of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (UU DKI) at this time.

Previously, the DPR and the government had agreed that the governor and deputy governor of the Special Region of Jakarta (DKJ) would still be directly elected by the people through the regional head elections (pilkada).

The decision annulled Article 10 of the draft DKJ Bill as suggested by the DPR which required that the governor and deputy governor be appointed, appointed, and dismissed by the president.

"Earlier there was a proposal from the government, although our institutional official yesterday was an appointment, now the government proposes with one different consequence from the DKI Law," said Supratman.