2024 Pilkada: KPU Needs To Involve Campuses In Regions With Single Candidates

Illustration - KPU needs to involve campuses or residential universities for regions that only have single candidates in the 2024 Pilkada. (ANTARA PHOTO/Muhammad Iqbal)

JAKARTA - Election Academics/Legal Teachers of the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia, Titi Anggraini, believe that the KPU needs to optimize the involvement of campuses/Universities, especially in areas that have or have a single candidate in the 2024 Pilkada.

"KPU needs to involve campuses, especially in single-candidate areas, so that the majority support obtained by single candidates is also directly proportional to the capacity and competence of candidate pairs in leading," Titi said in a webinar that was followed online from Jakarta, Monday.

According to Titi, the campus is the right place to test the vision, mission, and program of the pilkada candidate pair. The campus is considered to be a place to test the capacity of single candidates in the area.

"When he (the single candidate) gets a majority support (majority support) it means it can be said, in stages, that he is indeed the best choice that makes no other choice, because it should be tested optimally and there is no need to be afraid of single candidates coming to campus," Titi said as quoted by Antara.

According to him, the idea test on campus could be an opportunity for a single candidate to prove his skills in leading the region.

"This can be an opportunity, really convincing in the midst of a single candidate versus an empty box, that a single candidate is not born from a political engineering, but is born from a natural process supported by credible leadership and has capacity," he said.

Previously (20/8), the Constitutional Court allowed the regional election campaign to be carried out in universities as long as it had received permission and was present without campaign attributes.

Titi appreciated the Constitutional Court's Decision Number 69/PUU-XXII/2024. However, he emphasized, the decision must also be followed by further arrangements in the KPU (PKPU) regulations.

Campaigns on campus, he added, must be ensured to be politically oriented and the dialect of ideas.

The campus must be balanced, and provide equal, equal and equal opportunities to all Pilkada participants. Campuses should not be biased. Campuses should not be practical politics or become political tools for certain pairs of candidates or groups," said Titi.