Jokowi ISSUEd The 2024 General Election Perppu, KPU: Campaign 15 Days After Determination Of The Candidate-Cawapres Pair

JAKARTA - The government has issued a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) related to elections to accommodate a number of regulations needed for the implementation of the 2024 General Election.

"The KPU RI has received the Election Perppu, and today the KPU will immediately issue a Amendment to PKPU Number 4 of 2022, especially regarding Article 137 and its attachment related to the coding document for the serial number of political parties participating in the election," said RI KPU member Idham Holik in Jakarta, Tuesday 13 December, confiscated by Antara. Idham said there was an insertion of one article between Article 10 and Article 11 in Law Number 7 of 2017, namely Article 10A concerning the formation of Provincial KPU in the Papua DOB contained in the Election Perppu. "Likewise there is also the insertion of one article between Article 92 and Article 93, namely Article 92A concerning Provincial Bawaslu in the Papua DOB," he said. Then, he continued, there was also an addition of one paragraph in Article 117, namely paragraph (3) concerning the requirements for the age of Panwaslu kelurahan/village and TPS supervisors. Furthermore, the insertion of one paragraph between paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) in Article, namely paragraph (2a) concerning the requirements for the management of political parties. Namely, the requirements for permanent office for the Province of South Papua, Central Papua Province, Papua Mountains Province, and Southwest Papua Province are excluded as a requirement to be participants of the 2024 General Election. Perppu also contains material changes in Article 179 paragraph (3) concerning the number of political parties that meet the provisions of the national vote acquisition threshold for DPR member elections in 2019 and has been determined as election participants. The political party can use the same sequence number in the 2019 Election or follow the determination of political party numbers for election participants conducted in the open plenary session of KPU.

The Perppu also contains changes to the norm material contained in Article 186, namely the number of seats for members of the DPR is set at 580. In Law Number 7 of 2017 the number of seats for DPR members is 575 seats. Article 243 contains an addition of one paragraph, namely in particular paragraph 5 of the management of political parties in the DOB area. Determination of the list of candidates for provincial DPRD members for the 2024 General Election, carried out by the administrators of political parties participating in the central election. Give me, changes in the norm material in Article 276, especially paragraph 1 which was originally a campaign started 3 days after DCT (a permanent candidate list) was determined, now to 25 days after DCT was determined and 15 days the pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates were determined.