Parliament Threshold is Sued, Gerindra is Waiting for Development

JAKARTA - Secretary General (Sekjen) of the DPP Gerindra Party Sugiono stated that his party is still waiting for developments from the application for a material test submitted by a number of civil society organizations against the parliamentary threshold provision (parliamentary threshold) which is currently set at 4 percent.

The Indonesian Electoral and Democracy Watch civil society organization has filed a petition for a test of the substance of Article 414 paragraph (1) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (Election Law) to the Constitutional Court (MK) and they argue that the parliamentary threshold should not exceed 2.5 percent.

"We will see the development, we are still discussing. We are still calculating what the best is like, and we also want to try to roll out a discourse that we have to find what the system is like," said Sugiono as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, February 7.

Sugiono then emphasized Gerindra's attitude, in principle, wanting an efficient political process.

"The point is how this political process can be more efficient, then it does not leave residues that just cause cracks in the unity of the nation, then (we also want, ed.) systems or mechanisms that are increasingly efficient," said Sugiono.

The Constitutional Court on February 29, 2024 has granted a portion of the request for a material test filed by the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) against Article 414 paragraph (1) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections (Election Law). The Constitutional Court's decision is registered with number 116/PUU-XXI/2023.

In the ruling, the Constitutional Court did not find a rational basis in the determination of the amount or percentage of the parliamentary threshold of at least four percent as previously regulated in Article 414 paragraph (1) of the Election Law.

Therefore, the Constitutional Court asked the law-makers to immediately change the threshold provision of the parliament before the 2029 election.

Commission II of the DPR also followed up on the Constitutional Court's decision by holding a hearing on the Election Bill on January 20, 2026. Deputy Chairman of Commission II of the DPR, Aria Bima, said that Commission II of the DPR wants the Election Law in the future to remain in line with the constitutional basis.

During the meeting, a number of points were discussed together by members of the DPR together with experts and practitioners, including the threshold for the nomination of the president and vice president, as well as the threshold for parliament.