Hidayat Nur Wahid Responds To The Constitutional Court's Decision On The Threshold Of Parliament

Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly, Muhammad Hidayat Nur Wahid. (Between/HO-MPR RI)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly Muhammad Hidayat Nur Wahid also responded to the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) Number 116/PUU-XXI/2023 regarding the provisions of the parliamentary threshold of 4 percent of national valid votes regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections.

The legislator who is familiarly called HNW said that the Constitutional Court's decision did not eliminate the parliamentary threshold at all, but the current threshold figure needed to be rearranged by scientific studies, rational, and democratic arguments.

"This should also not only apply to the parliamentary threshold, which is 4 percent, but should also apply to the presidential threshold which is currently valid at 20 percent," said HNW in a press statement received by Antara in Jakarta, Sunday.

According to HNW, the Constitutional Court needs to act fairly in accordance with the constitutional principles in force in Indonesia to order legislators, namely the DPR and the government to correct 20 percent of the presidential threshold before the 2029 election, as is the argument of the Constitutional Court in the decision related to the 4 percent parliamentary threshold correction.

HNW assesses that corrections to the presidential threshold are needed to save people's sovereignty so that the quality of democracy and the presidential election will be better in 2029.

"The Constitutional Court should also order legislators to do the same thing when determining the presidential threshold so as to correct the 20 percent presidential threshold before the 2029 General Election/Pilpres," he said.