JAKARTA - Chairman of the PDIP DPP Said Abdullah, responding to various discourses that have developed regarding the Parliamentary Threshold recently, one of which is the proposal regarding the reduction of the parliamentary threshold below 4 percent. According to Said, the existence of the parliamentary threshold encourages a more effective democracy in the DPR RI.
"For a moment we look at several mature democracies in various countries, they all have provisions on the Parliamentary Threshold (PT), the difference is the amount of numbers from each country," said Said Abdullah to reporters, Friday, January 30.
Said assessed that the proposal to replace PT with a coalition of factions from small parties would actually make it difficult for them to practice politics in parliament.
"The combined fraction of small parties will 'force marriage' politics, even though it could be that their ideologies and political characters are different because of Indonesia's multicultural background," said Said.
This combined faction, according to Said, will be easier to run in countries whose cultures are more homogeneous. Meanwhile, Indonesia's political pattern is more multicultural.
"And this can create a deadlock decision within the combined party faction," he explained.
"On the other hand, the existence of PT will also encourage the consolidation of democracy in parliament more effectively, especially in political decision-making, and ultimately to ensure the stability of the course of government and politics," continued the Chairman of the Banggar DPR RI.
Referring to the Constitutional Court's ruling, Said emphasized that the Constitutional Court did not prohibit the use of PT. He emphasized, what was canceled by the Constitutional Court was the emergence of PT 4 percent in the last election. Because the Constitutional Court considers the 4 percent figure not based on a solid constitutionalism.
"If I think about it, it is no longer based on the nominal PT that needs to be poured into the law. We can pour the norm by basing it on the principle of representation to support the function of legislation, namely the parties to the election who are entitled to sit in the DPR must meet the number of DPR facilities in the DPR period before the new election is held," said Said.
Currently, Said said, there are 13 commissions in the DPR RI, and 8 bodies. Thus, according to him, the party entitled to sit in the DPR must meet the number of DPR members of 21 people.
"Because if the number of party representatives in the DPR is less than the number of council facilities above, then it cannot fulfill its legislative obligations," said Said.
"If they cannot fulfill their legislative obligations, then the role of their representatives in the DPR will be crippled, they cannot be effective," he added.
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