Minister Of Home Affairs Involves Expert To Study The Elimination Of Parliamentary Threshold

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian has ordered his staff to involve experts in reviewing the possibility of removing the "parliamentary threshold" or parliamentary threshold of four percent of the national legitimate vote.

"The Ministry of Home Affairs, as part of the government, I have ordered staff to do a kind of FGD, what is the follow-up to responding to that. FGD involves experts, constitutional experts, internals," said Minister of Home Affairs Tito as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, January 17.

Tito explained that his party immediately carried out a focus group discussion (FGD) involving a team of experts and internals to review the impact of the opportunity if the Constitutional Court removed the parliamentary threshold.

The results of the FGD will later be discussed further at coordination meetings of the central government and related ministries/agencies, such as the State Secretariat and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Then, further discussions will be held in a hearing in the DPR.

"Whatever the results will be discussed at government-level meetings, related ministries/agencies, (such as) State Secretariat, (Ministry) Kumham, all kinds of things. After that, we will bring this opinion to the DPR," said Tito.

Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra said that the Constitutional Court (MK) had the opportunity to cancel the parliamentary threshold or parliamentary threshold of 4 percent of the national legitimate vote.

"After there is a presidential threshold decision, it is likely that the Constitutional Court will also cancel the parliamentary threshold which has always been questioned by political parties," said Yusril Ihza Mahendra in Denpasar, Bali (13/1).

He assessed that the Constitutional Court's decision to cancel or remove the threshold for presidential and vice presidential nominations or a presidential threshold of 20 percent would have an impact on the provisions of the parliament's threshold.

The decision, he continued, gave new hope to political parties to develop in a healthier Indonesian democracy.