KPU: Design Of Election Technical Regulations According To Open Proportional System

KPU/ANTARA/Tri Meilani Ameliya press conference

The KPU ensures that it will design technical regulations for the 2024 General Election in accordance with the open proportional electoral system, as stated by the Constitutional Court regarding the judicial review of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections.

"So in the future, we will design technical regulations for organizing elections, which is in accordance with an open list proportional system," said KPU member Idham Holik at a press conference reported by ANTARA, Thursday, June 15.

Idham also said that the technical regulations refer to the Election Law which mandates the implementation of elections in the country using an open proportional system.

The technical regulations regulate a number of things, including voting and vote counting, converting votes into seats in parliament, as well as determining the elected legislative candidate (caleg).

Idham said that in the near future, the KPU will invite mass media, civil society representatives, and political parties participating in the 2024 General Election to take part in a public test of the PKPU draft on voting and vote counting.

Previously, the panel of judges of the Constitutional Court stated that they rejected the petitioners' petition regarding the judicial review of Article 168 paragraph (2) of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections concerning an open proportional system registered with case registration number 114/PUU-XX/2022 on November 14, 2022.

Thus, the open proportional electoral system will remain in effect in the 2024 General Election.

"Reject the petitioners in its entirety," said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Anwar Usman when reading the verdict.