Political Parties Who Want Closed Systems Must Know, The SSI Survey Tells The Public To Request Open Proportional 2024 Elections

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JAKARTA - The results of the survey on the Indonesian Survey Scale (SSI) show that the majority of the public by 63 percent wants the 2024 General Election to continue to use an open proportional system.

"The majority of Indonesians, namely 63 percent, still agree that the 2024 General Election will continue to use an open proportional system," said SSI Executive Director Abdul Hakim as released in Jakarta, Friday, January 6.

Abdul said that only 4.8 percent of respondents agreed that the 2024 General Election would be changed using a closed proportional system. The rest, he continued, as many as 32.2 percent of respondents answered they did not know / did not answer / were not in secret.

He said that from those who stated that the 2024 Legislative Election would continue to use an open proportional system, the majority of respondents were 19 percent reasonable because they considered that they could find out/see the legislative candidates.

"(Other reasons) can directly choose 17.1 percent of the candidates, the people's right to choose 13.8 percent, 12 percent more transparent / open and the public must know the candidates and parties they choose 6.3 percent," he said.

Meanwhile, he continued, from those who stated that they agreed that the 2024 Pileg would be changed using a closed proportional system, the majority of respondents, namely 27.6 percent reasoned because they considered direct elections to be expensive.

"(Other reasons) there are too many choices of 20.7 percent, elections are 10.3 percent longer, and potentially money politics is 6.9 percent," he explained.

He said that the majority of political party constituents in Indonesia also wanted the 2024 General Election to continue to use an open proportional system. Meanwhile, as many as 55.6 percent of respondents answered they did not know / did not answer / were not in secret.

The achievements of political party voters who agree with the 2024 General Election continue to use a proportional system in a row, namely PKB (52.2 percent), Gerindra Party (70.6 percent), PDI Perjuangan (64.1 percent), Golkar Party (65.4 percent), and NasDem Party (60.7 percent).

Then, Garuda Party (100 percent), PKS (72.5 percent), Perindo (78.6 percent), PPP (39.3 percent), PSI (100 percent), PAN (70 percent), Hanura Party (100 percent), and the Democratic Party (67.1 percent).

"Seeing the data above, it can be concluded that the true desire to change the electoral system from open proportional to closed is not the desire of the public. This change is more desired by a handful of certain political party elites," he said.

By taking into account the public's aspirations, he is of the opinion that the Constitutional Court (MK) in deciding the judicial review of Article 168 Paragraph (2) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections (UU Pemilu) still maintains the previous decisions that have been made, namely elections using an open proportional system.

"Decisions that have been made in 2018 regarding the same lawsuit should be reiterated to continue to establish the direction of democracy in Indonesia," said Abdul.

The SSI survey conducted from 6 to 12 November 2022 was conducted on 1,200 respondents using a multistage random sampling method. This survey has a margin of error of around 2.83 percent and a confidence level of 95 percent.

The age of respondents who were sampled was 16 years and over or married. The data collection technique used is face-to-face interviews with respondents using questionnaires.