PDIP Wants Parliamentary Threshold To Increase To 5 Percent In 2024 Election

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) wants the parliamentary threshold in the 2024 election to be raised. The reason is called PDIP to support the consolidation of democracy.

It is known, in the 2014 General Election in Law Number 8 of 2012, the parliamentary threshold was set at 3.5 percent and applies nationally to all members of the DPR and DPRD.

Meanwhile, PDIP proposed that the threshold for the DPR, for example, could be applied at 5 percent.

"It is also important to consolidate democracy by applying the threshold in stages. So this threshold must be continuously raised," said PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto, Monday, November 1.

Hasto said that his party also proposed increasing the threshold to be applied at the provincial DPRD and regency/city DPRD levels in stages.

"So that consolidation takes place as a whole," he said.

According to him, if the parliamentary threshold for the DPR is 5 percent, then for the provincial DPRD it is 4 percent and for districts/cities it is 3 percent.

Hasto claimed, increasing this threshold is very important because the presidential government system that has been adopted by Indonesia so far requires simple multi-party support.

With this simple multiparty, he said, the government would run effectively. "Thus, the number of parties in the DPR RI must be limited," concluded Hasto.