Administrative Requirements For The Latest Vice Presidential Candidate List 2023

Administrative Requirements for the Vice Presidential Candidate List (image Marten Bjork-Unsplash)

YOGYAKARTA - The General Election Commission (KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia reminded the supporting political parties to meet the requirements for submitting a list of candidates for president and vice president when registering at the KPU. Curious about the administrative requirements for the vice presidential candidate list?

Launching from ANTARA, member of the Indonesian KPU Idham Holik emphasized that his party would return the required documents for the prospective presidential and vice-presidential candidates which were considered incomplete.

"We have also conveyed that political parties or coalitions of political parties meet the requirements to submit a list of candidates for presidential-vice-presidential candidates to fulfill all required administrative completeness," said Idham at the Indonesian KPU Media Center, Jakarta, Monday. The administrative requirements for the list of vice presidential candidates are the following;

1. Be wary of God Almighty.

2. Indonesian citizens since their birth and have never received other citizenship because of their own will.

3. Never betray the state and never commit criminal acts of corruption and other serious crimes.

4. Able mentally and physically to carry out duties and obligations as president and vice president.

5. Live in the territory of the Republic of Indonesia.

6. Has reported his wealth to agencies authorized to examine state administrators' wealth reports.

7. Not currently having individual debt responsibilities and/or legally whose responsibilities are detrimental to state finances.

8. Not being declared bankrupt based on a court decision.

9. Never committing a disgraceful act.

10. Registered as voters.

11. Have a Taxpayer Identification Number (NPWP) and have carried out the obligation to pay taxes for the last five years as evidenced by the Annual Tax Return Letter for Individual Taxpayers.

12. Has never served as president or vice president for two terms in the same position.

13. Setia kepada Pancasila sebagai dasar negara, UUD 1945, dan aci-cita Proklamasi Kemerdekaan 17 Agustus 1945.

14. Never sentenced to prison based on a court decision that has permanent legal force for committing a crime that is threatened with imprisonment of five years or more.

15. A minimum age of 35 years.

16. With the lowest education, graduates from high school or other equivalent forms.

17. Not a former member of the banned organization of the Indonesian Communist Party, including its mass organization, or not a person directly involved in the G30S/PKI.

18. Have a vision, mission, and program in carrying out the government.

The KPU then verifies the presidential and vice presidential candidates registered by political parties. Candidates and vice presidential candidates that do not comply with the provisions can be rejected by the KPU.

When is the registration of presidential candidates to the KPU?

Currently, the registration period for presidential and vice-presidential candidates has not been opened. The KPU only wants to open from October 19 to November 25, 2023. The verification period and campaign are continued. Voting will be held on February 14, 2024.

KPU RI Reminds Political Parties To Fulfill The Requirements For Registering Candidates For Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidates

Idham Holik explained that the registration of prospective presidential and vice-presidential candidates would be accepted by the KPU if the requirements were complete. If it is not complete, then the supporting political parties are required to complete the time of registration for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

"If the documents are complete, then we will receive them. If the documents are incomplete, then we will return the registration documents," he explained.

The time span given by the KPU is to improve the completeness of documents during the registration period for presidential and vice-presidential candidates on 19-24 October 2023.

Idham said that if the required documents for the presidential and vice presidential candidates had been declared complete, the KPU would conduct a health check. The KPU will facilitate health checks at the Gatot Soebroto Army Central Hospital (RSPAD).

"We will conduct a health check on the prospective presidential and vice presidential candidates. The plan is for the health examination site at the Gatot Subroto Army Hospital and the KPU to also form a team of health examination doctors," said Idham.

The KPU has issued KPU Regulation (PKPU) Number 19 of 2023 concerning the Registration of Presidential Candidates and Vice Presidential Candidates for the 2024 General Election. In the PKPU, the registration of presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2024 presidential election is opened on 19-25 October 2023 at the KPU RI Office, Jakarta.

The KPU began socializing the registration of prospective presidential election pairs starting Monday, Wednesday, October 18, or the day before registration opens. Registration time on October 19-24, 2023 opens at 08.00 WIB-16.00 WIB, while on October 25 it is closed until 23.59 WIB.

As regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections, pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidates are proposed by political parties or coalitions of election participants who 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 pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election must have at least 115 seats in the DPR RI. In addition, candidate pairs can also be promoted by political parties or a combination of political parties participating in the 2019 Election with a total valid votes of at least 34,992,703 votes.

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