VIDEO: Syarief Hasan Rejects Surya Paloh's Proposal For A 7 Percent Parliamentary Threshold

JAKARTA - Politics in Indonesia is warm again about the proposed parliamentary threshold to increase to 7 percent.

This proposal was put forward by the General Chairman of the Nasdem Party, Surya Paloh for the sake of simplifying political parties in parliament.

Surya Paloh revealed this in an online national dialogue on the 50th anniversary of CSIS Indonesia on Monday, August 23.

As for the Election Law, the current parliamentary threshold is 4 percent.

To explore this, VOI asked the opinion of Syarief Hasan, a politician from the Democratic Party, as well as the Deputy Chairman of the MPR RI.

Check out Syarief Hasan's explanation in this video: