JAKARTA - The Chairman of the Perludem Board of Trustees, Titi Anggraini, assessed that efforts to simplify the system of political parties and strengthen the effectiveness of parliament are no longer appropriate when carried out by raising the parliamentary threshold (PT).
Because, the policy of raising PT risks increasing wasted votes and weakening the proportionality of the representation of the results of the election. "In my opinion, it would be more appropriate if there were an implementation of a threshold for the formation of factions," he said, Sunday, March 1.
Titi explained that empirically the Indonesian electoral system actually has a relatively high effective threshold. This is reflected in the size of the electoral district (seat allocation in dapil) which also affects the level of party fragmentation in parliament. Thus, the issue of fragmentation is not solely determined by the parliamentary threshold.
"Therefore, a policy repositioning is needed to distinguish between the threshold of representation and the threshold of parliamentary work," he continued.
According to him, the most important thing is to distinguish between the threshold of representation that determines the party's entry into parliament - with the threshold of parliamentary work related to institutional effectiveness. In this context, the threshold for the formation of factions is considered a more proportional solution.
"The threshold for the fraction is more relevant and targeted because it maintains that all votes that have been converted into seats are still respected, while encouraging consolidation and the effectiveness of parliamentary work," said Titi.
He emphasized that with this approach, a balance between representation and stability can be achieved through a rational, proportional, and constitutional institutional design, as emphasized by the Constitutional Court in the Constitutional Court Decision No. 116/PUU-XXI/2023, without limiting the political choices of the people.
"Thus, the reformulation of the institutional design of the parliament needs to be directed at strengthening internal governance without sacrificing the principles of representation and the sovereignty of the voters' vote," concluded Titi.
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