5 Donation Funds That Should Not Be Accepted By Political Parties, One Of Them Comes From Foreign Parties

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YOGYAKARTA Donation funds that cannot be accepted by political parties are regulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections. If proven to have violated these provisions, the management of the political party concerned will be subject to a maximum sentence of 3 years and a fine of 3 times the amount received.

For more details, see the summary of the information in the following article.

It has been mentioned above that the rules regarding donations that cannot be accepted by political parties are regulated in Law no. 7/2017 concerning General Elections.

Article 339 paragraph (1) of the Law states which parties cannot receive donations for campaign purposes during general elections, including:

If anyone violates these provisions, they will be subject to sanctions, as stipulated in Article 527, Article 528, and Article 584.

Article 527 of Law no. 7/2017 states that election participants who are proven to have received campaign donations as referred to in Article 339 paragraph (1) shall be punished with imprisonment for a maximum of three years and a maximum fine of IDR 36 million.

Meanwhile, in Article 339 paragraph (2) of election participants, campaign organizers and campaign teams that receive donations from certain parties as stated in Article 39 paragraph (1) are prohibited from using these funds and are required to report them to the KPU and submit the donation to the state treasury no later than 14 days after the campaign period ends.

If they do not comply with these provisions, they will be subject to a maximum imprisonment of four years and a fine of three times the amount of donations received, quoted from Article 528 of the Election Law.

Not only that, the implementer and the campaign team can also be punished if they are proven to have used funds from prohibited donations and/or did not report and/or did not deposit them to the state head according to the specified time limit.

Meanwhile, Article 339 paragraph (4) states that everyone is not allowed to use the government budget, regional government, state-owned enterprises, regional-owned enterprises (BUMD), village government agencies or other designations and village-owned enterprises to be donated or given to campaign implementers.

If proven to have violated, he will be subject to a maximum imprisonment of three years and a maximum fine of Rp. 1 billion, as stated in Article 584 of Law Number 7 of 2017.

Source Of Political Party Funds

According to Law Number 2 of 2011 concerning Amendments to Law Number 2 of 2008 concerning Political Parties, political party finances come from three things, namely:

Related to this, the donation in question can be in the form of money, goods, and/or services.

As for those who can contribute to political parties, namely:

Donations given to political parties are based on the principles of honesty, voluntary, justice, openness, responsibility, sovereignty, and independence of political parties.

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