KPU Asked To Give Requirements For Regional Head Candidates To Become A 3-Year Political Party Cadre To Prevent Dynastic Politics

KPU / Irfan Meidianto-VOI building

JAKARTA - Member of the Board of Trustees of Perludem, Titi Anggaraini, asked the General Election Commission (KPU) to impose certain requirements for regional head candidate pairs (cakada) through political parties.

According to Titi, the KPU can make a requirement that a regional head candidate through the political party path must become a party cadre for at least three years before submitting his candidacy in the next regional election.

"We are pushing for the requirements for candidates from parties. We recommend that one of the cadres who are promoted by a party or a coalition of parties has a minimum requirement of three years as a cadre of a political party," said Titi in a webinar discussion, Thursday, December 17.

This encouragement, said Titi, was due to the existence of kinship or dynastic politics in the 2020 Pilkada in a number of regions. The problem is that the akada is a cadre who was recruited by the party just before the election.

As a result, the appointment of a regional head who is related to party officials or officials close to the party makes the party regeneration process exclusive and weakens the principles of democracy.

"Kinship politics limits access to election inclusiveness for party cadres. This is because it limits access and inclusiveness of elections. In fact, the election must be accessible, especially for all party cadres," said Titi.

For information, many people think that dynastic politics is still rooted in the implementation of the 2020 Pilkada nominations. One of the visible areas is the elections in Surakarta (Solo) and Medan City.

In the Solo City Election, one of the candidates for regional head was Gibran Rakabuming Raka. Then, in the Medan Pilkada, the candidate was Bobby Nasution. The two candidates were nominated by PDI Perjuangan.

Gibran is the son of President Joko Widodo and Bobby is the son-in-law of Jokowi, who has been closely associated with the PDI-P. Gibran and Bobby also became PDIP cadres shortly before the 2020 Pilkada candidacy took place.

The editorial staff apologized in advance for revising the headlines and news leads. The news that we have corrected is here. Perludem Encourages Requirements for Minimum 3 Years of Candidates for Regional Heads for Political Party Cadres