JAKARTA - Director of the Citra Institute, Yusak Farchan assessed that the issuance of Constitutional Court Decision (MK) Number 135/PUU-XXII/2024 which stipulates a separation of national and regional elections has implications for the inapplicability of the threshold for the nomination of regional heads.
"If the DPRD and regional heads elections are held simultaneously, the threshold for nominating regional heads as regulated in the 60/2024 Constitutional Court Decision cannot be implemented because there is no election result for the DPRD," he said, Sunday, July 6, 2025.
"Politically, the direction of the Constitutional Court's decision is indeed reducing the chances of regional heads being elected by the DPRD as well as removing the nomination threshold for regional heads as abolition of the presidential threshold to zero percent," added Yusak.
On the other hand, he said, the Constitutional Court's Decision 135/2024 will also have a positive impact on the electoral and institutional system of election organizers. KPU and Bawaslu, for example, will survive the discourse of being converted into an ad-hoc institution because they are not only on duty once in five years.
In addition, political parties also benefit because DPRD members have the potential to get an additional 'bonus' of office because of the long gap between national elections and local elections. Unlike regional heads, it is impossible for the government to provide an implementation of positions for the DPRD.
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So, there is a good impression in the DPRD, but it is not good in the regional head. The DPRD is happy because it gets a position bonus of at least two years. This is what the legislators must look for a solution through just and equal constitutional engineering for local election participants," said Yusak.
As is known, the Constitutional Court in Decision Number 135/PUU-XXII/2024 separates the implementation of national and regional elections starting in 2029. The national elections are only to elect members of the DPR RI, DPD RI, as well as the president and vice president. The election for members of the provincial and city district-level DPRD is carried out in conjunction with the regional head elections.
Through this decision, the Constitutional Court also provides an option so that the time lag from national and regional elections is designed to be in the range of 2 to 2.5 years. Thus, the election for DPRD members and regional heads which was originally to be held in 2029 is likely to be postponed to 2031.
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