JAKARTA, iNews.id – Executive Director of the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), Khoirunnisa Nur Agustyati, believes that the Political Party Law needs to be revised. This is because many problems have occurred related to political parties lately.
“Our political parties compared to other institutions, in this reform era we have created many state institutions, state commissions whose spirit is reform or improvement. But, we need to reflect, our political parties as important institutions in democracy are late to be reformed,” he said in the discussion ‘The Future of Indonesian Democracy in the New Leadership Period’ through the LP3ES Youtube account, Sunday (21/4/2024).
The law that regulates political parties in Indonesia is Law No. 2/2011, or in other words, it has been 12 years since this law was revised. Meanwhile, there are so many improvements that should be made.
Khoirunnisa mentioned, for example, that someone who had never taken part in a political party suddenly became the party chairman.
“Talking about today’s problems, people suddenly become chairmen of political parties, suddenly they can be nominated without us knowing whether they have been active in the party for a long time, whether they have become cadres of political parties or not,” she said.
“This shows that there are problems with our political parties, in terms of recruitment, in terms of regeneration, whether our political parties are participatory enough or not, including in terms of financial transparency,” he said.
He added that everyone knows that political parties also receive funds from the state.
However, political parties are also considered not transparent enough to be able to report the use of funds from the state. Meanwhile, the use of funds will have an impact on decision-making in political parties.
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