Simultaneous Regional Head Election Schedule Ensures Permanent Court November 2024

Constitutional Court (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - A member of the Advisory Council, Needdem Titi Anggraini, said that the Constitutional Court emphasized two important substances in the case decision Number 12/PUU-XXII/2024, one of which is that the simultaneous regional head elections this year will continue in November 2024 according to a consistent schedule.

"Although rejecting the petitioner's petition, the Constitutional Court emphasized two important substances," Titi Anggraini said through a WhatsApp conversation with ANTARA in Semarang, Saturday morning, when responding to the Constitutional Court's decision regarding the judicial review of the Pilkada Law on the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

Previously, Ahmad Al Farizy and Nur Fauzi Ramadhan, the two applicants, students at the University of Indonesia, submitted a judicial review of Law Number 10 of 2016 concerning the Second Amendment to Law no. 1 of 2015 concerning Stipulation of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning the Election of Governors, Regents, and Mayors to Law (UU Pilkada) on the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. Even though the Constitutional Court on Thursday, February 29 at 16.02 WIB rejected the applicant's petition, continued Titi, the Constitutional Court stated that considering the importance of the stages of organizing the predetermined regional elections which turned out to have implications for the simultaneous meaning of regional elections nationally, the Court needed to confirm the schedule that had been set in Article 201 paragraph (8) of the Pilkada Law.

The article states that simultaneous national voting in the Election of Governors and Deputy Governors, Regents and Deputy Regents, as well as Mayors and Deputy Mayors throughout the territory of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) will be held in November 2024.

Therefore, said Titi, the regional elections must be carried out in accordance with the referred schedule consistently to avoid overlapping the crucial stages of the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Head Elections with the unfinished 2024 Election stages.

"This means changing the schedule in question will disrupt and threaten the constitutionality of the simultaneous regional elections," said Titi, who was once the Executive Director of Needdem.

Another important substance, continued this electoral expert, through legal consideration of case decision Number 12/PUU-XXII/2024, the Constitutional Court emphasized and emphasized that the General Election Commission (KPU) requires candidates for DPR members, DPD members, and elected DPRD members who run for regional heads to make a statement that they are willing to resign if they have been officially inaugurated as members of the DPR, DPD members and DPRD members if they continue to run as regional heads.