DPR Ensures Jakarta Pilkada Is Directly Elected By The People

National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, ensured that the Jakarta regional head election (Pilkada) would still be directly elected by the people like other regions. "So if there is information stating that for the governor of the Special Region of Jakarta it is determined by another mechanism, it is a wrong opinion," he said in his statement, Sunday, February 3. Dasco asked all parties not to provide hoax or incorrect information. According to him, the government and political parties have the same desire to hold the Jakarta governor election in November 2024. For this reason, Dasco stated that it is not true that the news of the governor and deputy governor of Jakarta will not be directly elected by the people. Moreover, currently, Indonesia's democratic process has developed significantly.

"So before the DPR process has agreed with the government in the regional discussion of the Jakarta Special Region Law. The Governor of the Jakarta Region will be elected through a direct election mechanism by the people or Pilkada," he emphasized. Previously, the DPR plenary meeting approved the Jakarta Special Region Provincial Bill (RUU PDKJ) to become the DPR's proposed bill. This bill regulates the status of Jakarta if the nation's capital city has moved to the capital city of the archipelago.