JAKARTA - The Board of Trustees for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) Titi Anggraini said that the discussion of the Draft Law (RUU) on Elections must begin immediately in order to enable comprehensive and in-depth discussion of substance in an academic manner and its practical consequences in the future.
According to him, discussions with sufficient time are needed to ensure the participation of all parties meaningfully (meaningful participation), given the wide scope of content in the Election Law,
"The UU for the election of instruments is important, because it is for electoral engineering in order to realize constitutional, honest, fair, democratic elections," Titi said as quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, January 26.
He explained that currently Indonesia is finishing implementing the election year and is entering the post-electoral period.
From various studies, according to him, now is the right moment to conduct studies, audits, or evaluations of the election that has been completed.
In addition, he encouraged a codification of the Law on Elections whose content regulates the legislative elections, presidential elections, regional head elections, and election organizers in one manuscript.
According to him, the codification of election and regional elections arrangements in one manuscript of the Law on Elections will be more relevant in building coherence and consistency in regulation and from making it easier to use as an instrument of political education for the public to understand regulation.
Philosophically, sociologically, and juridically, he said the current conditions had met the objective prerequisites of the urging to revoke/replace the Election Law and the Pilkada Law with a new law through a modified model of election arrangements whose content was grouped into: books, chapters, sections, and paragraphs.
In addition, he also criticized the DPR for being in a hurry to discuss the Pilkada Bill.
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According to him, there is a negative impact from this hasty discussion, including the non-optimal participation of the community.
For example, he said, Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections was passed on August 16, 2017.
In fact, Titi continued, the stages for the 2019 Simultaneous Elections began one day later, namely on August 17, 2017.
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