DPR Welcomes Constitutional Court Decision On Amendment To Parliamentary Threshold 4 Percent

DPR RI Building (Photo: Irfan Meidianto/VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of Commission II of the DPR Ahmad Doli Kurnia agreed with the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) which ordered that the parliamentary threshold (PT) requirements be 4 percent changed before the implementation of the 2029 General Election. Doli said that the decision was in accordance with the spirit of the commission partnering with the KPU. "For me, what the Constitutional Court decided was the same as the spirit in Commission II of the DPR RI," said Doli to reporters, Friday, March 1. The legislator of Golkar for the northern Sumatran electoral district revealed that Commission II of the DPR had submitted an initiative to revise the Election Law (UU). Doli said, efforts to change the DPR threshold requirements had existed since the early 2019 period. "We at the beginning of the 2019 yesterday actually submitted the initiative to revise the law with several issues of the improvement of our electoral system, one of which was related to the threshold," said the Deputytum Golkar. Previously, the Constitutional Court (MK) decided that the parliamentary threshold of 4 percent had to be changed before the 2029 election. But the 4 percent parliamentary threshold requirement still applies to the 2024 elections.

This decision is related to the judicial review submitted by Needdem. The Petitioner questioned Article 414 paragraph (1) of the Election Law which stated. "The Political Party of Election Contestants must meet the threshold for vote acquisition of at least 4 percent of the total nationally valid votes to be included in determining the seat acquisition of DPR members".