After The Constitutional Court's Decision, The Labor Party Encourages The DPR To Accelerate The Revision Of The Election Law

JAKARTA - The Labor Party encourages the DPR to accelerate the discussion of the revision of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (UU Pemilu) after the request for judicial review related to the parliamentary threshold they submitted could not be accepted by the Constitutional Court.

"We will continue to stand with the Constitutional Court, even though our petition this time has not been granted by the Court. However, the Labor Party encourages the DPR to accelerate the process of discussing the revision of the Election Law," said Labor Vice President Said Salahudin as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, October 17.

The Labor Party is the applicant for the judicial review of Article 414 paragraph (1) of the Election Law which regulates the provisions of the parliamentary threshold. The article norm was previously interpreted by the Constitutional Court through Decision Number 116/PUU-XXI/2023.

However, the Constitutional Court on Thursday (16/10) stated that it could not accept the Labor Party's application registered with Number 131/PUU-XXIII/2025.

The Court considered the petition premature to be submitted because the legislators had not made changes to the parliamentary threshold rules as stipulated in the previous Constitutional Court decision.

"In fact, until today or 1.8 years after the decision Number 116/PUU-XXI/2023, there is still no bright spot from the DPR regarding the concept of the 2029 election system redesign, especially regarding the new parliamentary threshold rule," said Said.

Said also highlighted the order of the Court in legal considerations asking legislators to immediately make changes to the provisions mentioned before holding the 2019 General Election.

"In Decision Number 116/PUU-XXI/2023, and re-declared in Decision Number 131/PUU-XXIII/2025, the Constitutional Court explicitly mentions the word 'soon' in its order to the DPR to revise the Election Law," he said.

However, Said said the Labor Party remains consistent so that the parliamentary threshold (PT) is abolished. It is regarding the abolition of PT that the Labor Party requested in its petition that ended in aground.

"If the PT rules remain in effect, PT must be based on obtaining valid votes in the electoral district, not based on obtaining national valid votes. That is a fairer rule so that tens of millions of voters are not wasted on every election," Said added.

Previously, the Constitutional Court stated that it could not accept the application for judicial review submitted by the Labor Party. According to the Court, the application was not yet time to be submitted because the government and the DPR had not yet carried out the mandate of the previous Constitutional Court decision.

"The application quo (this) is not yet time to be submitted to the Court. Based on this legal fact, regarding the assumption of loss or potential loss of constitutional rights, the Petitioner has not or cannot be judged by the Court," said Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Saldi Isra, yesterday.

It is known, in the previous ruling, namely Decision Number 116/PUU-XXI/2023, the Constitutional Court stated that the norm of the article regarding the constitutional conditional parliamentary threshold should be applied in the 2029 DPR elections and subsequent elections.

The Court explicitly ordered legislators to make changes to parliamentary threshold norms, as well as the figure or percentage.