AN EVALUATION OF LEGAL POLICY RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SIMULTANEOUS LOCAL ELECTION (FIRST PERIOD OF THE SIMULTANEOUS LOCAL ELECTION)

Agus Riwanto

doi:10.20961/yustisia.v5i3.8806

Abstract

AbstractIndonesia legal policy of the simultaneous local election to appoint a district head had been amended by Law Number 8 of 2015 concerning the local election (governors, regents and mayors) from the regular models to the simultaneous models. Simultaneous local election will be implemented in periods, namely a first period in 2015, a second period in 2017, a third and fourth period will be approximately held from 2018 to the 2021, and a national simultaneous local elections will be held in 2027. The simultaneous local election is aimed to make the efficiency and effectiveness of the budget, time and labor organizer; to eliminate boredom voters; to increase public control. Law Number 8 of 2015 had been reviewed judicially thirdty first times. The Constitutional Court also issued a surpprised decision which change a political constellation of Indonesia. The political aspect of simultaneous local election in 2015 need to be fixed through the revision of Law Number 8 of 2015 in order to create the system of the simultaneous elections fairly and democratically for the implementation of the next period: the required transfer of election financing from the budget to the state budget; the need to create a model for the preliminary election; restrictions on candidacy requirements; a dispute settlement of the simultaneous local election to the supreme court; a time restrictions on the election administration disputes lawsuit in the Administrative Court; and we need to build a model of election law enforcement system integration.Key Word: legal policy evaluation, simultaneous local election

Highlights

Election of locally political leaders was held on December 9, 2015 by simultanous election in the area of 264 from 269 planned area
Simultaneous election systems is the first history of elections in Indonesia
The implementation of simultaneous election systems is a mandate of the Law Number 8 of 2015 concerning a revision of Law Number 1 of 2015 regarding the Election of Governors, Regents and Mayor, as well as Law Number 2 of 2015 on Local Government which was ratified by the House of Representatives on 16 February 2015 from 2014 to 2019 period and the local election results in the era of the new government of President Ir

Summary

Introduction

Election of locally political leaders was held on December 9, 2015 by simultanous election in the area of 264 from 269 planned area (consists of 8 provinces, 222 regencies and 34 cities).

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