Constitutional Court Decision On National-Regional Elections Separated: DPR Immediately Reviews, KPU Hard Work

JAKARTA - The DPR and the KPU RI have stated that they respect the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) which has decided that the national general election (Pemilu) will be separated from regional elections. In this case, the presidential election (Pilpres), the DPR election, DPD RI will be separated by the election of the Provincial/Regency/City DPRD as well as regional head elections (Pilkada) for the governor-deputy governor-deputy governor, regent-deputy regent, and mayor-deputy mayor starting 2029.

Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, said that his party would review the decision. "We will review the decision first," Dasco told reporters, Friday, June 27.

However, Dasco was reluctant to comment much on the Constitutional Court's decision. Including whether the Constitutional Court's decision will be included in the discussion on the revision of the Election Law.

"I can't answer yet because we haven't reviewed it. If the study is comprehensive, yes maybe all of our questions can be answered. This is the decision just yesterday, so we can't answer yet," he said.

Meanwhile, KPU chairman Mochammad Afifuddin said his party respects the Constitutional Court's decision. The KPU, he said, would further study the decision.

"We respect the Constitutional Court's decision and will study in detail the Constitutional Court's decision," said Afifuddin, Friday, June 27.

He admitted that the Constitutional Court's decision would make the KPU work harder.

"Indeed, the level that intersects even technically is not bad enough for the KPU to have to work extra," he said.

Previously, it was reported that the Constitutional Court decided some of the applications submitted by the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), regarding the norms for holding Simultaneous Elections.

"The Court states that Article 167 paragraph (3) and Article 347 paragraph (1) of the Election Law and Article 3 paragraph (1) of the Pilkada Law are contrary to the 1945 Constitution and do not have conditionally binding legal provisions," said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Suhartoyo reading the verdict at the Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta, Thursday, June 26, 2025.

In their consideration, the Constitutional Court ordered the voting to be held simultaneously to elect members of the DPR, DPD, President and Vice President afterwards within a minimum of two years or a maximum of two years and six months from the inauguration to elect members of the Provincial/Regency/City DPRD, and governor-deputy governors, regents-deputy regents, and mayors-deputy mayors.

"So that the simultaneous elections that have been known as the five-box election no longer apply," said Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Saldi Isra when reading the considerations of the verdict.