Designing a National-Local Simultaneous Election: A Proposal for Indonesian Electoral Governance

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10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Simultaneous election; electoral system; Indonesia; national simultaneous election; local simultaneous election

Abstract

This article is an attempt to propose the design of a simultaneous election in contemporary Indonesia. Public debates between two popular choices of the simultaneous election: between the national-local model and the legislative-executive model. Which one is more effective for Indonesian election? This article will elaborate further. The paper is aimed to find out a relevant simultaneous election system in contemporary Indonesia. Methodologically, it is qualitative research by adopting the multiple case approach. Therefore, this article relies on the fieldwork gathered from the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with political parties, the Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs), academics, and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) activists in three Indonesia’s different provinces. The finding demonstrates that a national-local simultaneous election is relevance for Indonesian culture and more effective rather than other models by designing the time space of 2.5 years between the national simultaneous election and the local simultaneous election. The first step is a national simultaneous election to vote the president-vice president, the House of Representative (DPR RI), and the regional representative council (DPD RI). More specifically, the presidential election is commenced at least between three and four months before the legislative election to guarantee that the presidential coattail effect can induce the party coalition and the legislative election. This model is designed to govern the activation along the years of the role of EMBs, political parties, and, indeed, voters. The significance of this paper is to figure out a win-win situation for a better electoral system in consolidating the path of Indonesian democracy.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ridho Al-Hamdi
AU  - Tanto Lailam
AU  - Sakir
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/24
TI  - Designing a National-Local Simultaneous Election: A Proposal for Indonesian Electoral Governance
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation on Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (ICOSI-HESS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 375
EP  - 390
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_32
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_32
ID  - Al-Hamdi2022
ER  -