Gerindra Present, 8 Factions In The DPR AGAIN Affirm Reject Proportional Closed Elections 2024

JAKARTA - Political parties (political parties) in parliament minus PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) reiterated that they refused to implement a closed proportional system in the 2024 General Election. This time a similar action was held at Nusantara III Building, Senayan Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Wednesday, January 11.

If previously none of the Gerindra Party elites came, this time the action was complete, eight parliamentary parties were represented by the leaders of each faction. The Gerindra Party was represented by the chairman of the faction, Ahmad Muzani.

Apart from Gerindra, the eight factions in the DPR are Golkar, NasDem, PKB, Democrats, PKS, PAN and PPP. These eight parties read out statements against the proportional closedness of the 2024 General Election represented by the Chairman of Commission II of the DPR Golkar Faction Ahmad Doli

Doli also brought up the Constitutional Court's decision regarding the electoral system which mandated direct elections in 2008.

"We are one of the countries that adhere to the direct electoral system, especially in the presidential and regional elections as well as in the legislative elections, all of which are transported in the 1945 Constitutional Law, which is also the basis when the Constitutional Court issued decision of the Constitutional Court number 22-24/PUU-VI/2008 on December 23, 2008," said Doli. 2024 election.

"Since then, the people have been given the opportunity to get to know, choose and appoint their representatives directly by person, no longer be closed, no longer completely leave it entirely to the authority of political parties alone, that is the progress and characteristics of our democracy. Indonesia," he said.

Doli emphasized that the people are used to participating directly in determining their choices. "Our people are also used to participating in such a democratic way," he said. Therefore, the chairman of the Golkar DPP hopes that the Constitutional Court will maintain an open electoral system or directly vote the name of the legislative candidate, not the image of the party. "Therefore, we must maintain the progress of our democracy at that point and instead develop it in a more advanced direction and we must not allow or back down," concluded Doli.

The following is the statement of the attitude of the 8 DPR factions read out by Doli:

1. That we will continue to oversee the growth of Indonesian democracy in a more advanced direction.

2. We ask for constitutional food to remain consistent with the Constitutional Court's decision number 22-24 / PUU-VI / 2008 on December 23, 2008 by defending Article 168 paragraph 2 of Law Number 7 of 2017 as a form of participating in maintaining the progress of Indonesian democracy.

3. remind the KPU to work in accordance with the mandate of the law to remain independent, not representing the interests of anyone except the interests of the people, nation and state.