Hope It Runs Peacefully, Kadin Links The Date Of The 2024 Election To Valentine's Day

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Arsjad Rasjid at I News Tower, Jakarta, Tuesday 18 July 2023. ANTARA/Narda M S

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Arsjad Rasjid hopes that the government will be able to maintain political and security stability during the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

"First, we hope that this is the most important political stability. Second, security stability," said Arsjad Rasjid before giving directions to the campaigner for the PDI-P presidential candidate (PDIP) Ganjar Pranowo at I News Tower, Jakarta, Tuesday, July 18, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said the 5-year democratic party which falls on February 14, 2024 coincides with Valentine's Day, so Arsjad wants all parties to be happy to carry out the 2024 General Election.

"The name is love, we are happy with each other, we are both making this because all democratic parties must be calm, not talk," he explained.

Arsjad said that Indonesia's democracy has been recognized by other nations because Indonesia has the values of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika and Gotong Royong. This makes Indonesia not easily divided because of the values that have been instilled by the nation's founders.

"We set an example for all nations abroad saying that Indonesian democracy is the top, great. We are not like the others divided, we remain united because we have the values of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika and the values of mutual cooperation together," said Arsjad.

According to the schedule set by the Indonesian KPU, the registration of prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates will start from October 19 to November 25, 2023.

Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections (UU Pemilu) regulates that pairs of presidential/vice-presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties participating in elections that meet the requirements for obtaining seats of at least 20 percent of the total number of seats in the DPR or obtaining 25 percent of valid votes nationally in the previous election for members of the DPR.

Currently, there are 575 seats in parliament so that the presidential/vice presidential candidate pair in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in support from the Indonesian House of Representatives. Candidate pairs can also be promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election, with a total valid vote acquisition of at least 34,992,703 votes.