TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Executive Director of the Election and Democracy Association (Perludem), Khoirunnisa Nur Agustyati, said that elections and local elections held in the same year were not ideal.
She is worried that fraud in the 2024 elections could be repeated in the 2024 elections next November.
“The concern when elections and regional elections are held in the same year is not ideal. And what is happening now is holding each other hostage, co-optation and practices that occurred in the 2024 Election. It could happen again in the 2024 elections,” said Nisa in a discussion at the ICW office, South Jakarta, Tuesday (13/8/2024).
She continued that the public had seen the forerunners of the fraud.
Nisa gave an example, for example in the Presidential Election changing the rules in the Constitutional Court.
Now in the Pilkada changing the rules in the Supreme Court.
“Including the nomination stage, we know that the nomination in the Pilkada must have 20 percent of DPRD seats. That is a very heavy requirement and it is rare for political parties to be able to advance alone, inevitably they have to work in coalition,” he explained.
And this coalition, he said, was an open secret that the coalition was not based on ideology.
But based on the calculation of the most profitable interests.
“When the party must choose a candidate loyal to the party. Compared to candidates who have logistics and the potential to win big.
Of course the latter candidate is chosen,” said Nisa.
She explained that this practice makes the current democracy in Indonesia unhealthy.
“So if you say it’s human rights (dynastic politics) it’s as if we’re talking in an empty room. Now what is happening is that the desire to perpetuate power through dynastic politics is carried out in various ways. For example, with a single candidate in the regional elections,” he explained.
The Perludem frontman said that finally political parties only encourage those who are close to the political party elite.
“And what is troubling is that the result is that the competition is eliminated,” he said.
This article has been published on Tribunnews.com with the title “Perludem Assesses that Elections and Regional Elections Held in the Same Year are Not Ideal”, https://www.tribunnews.com/nasional/2024/08/14/perludem-nilai-pemilu-dan-pilkada-yang-dilaksanakan-di-tahun-yang-sama-tidak-ideal.