Problematic of the election policy in Indonesia

Indonesia is one of the largest democracies in the world. Indonesian citizens have the highest power where the will of the people is the will of the state. To channel the will of the people general elections are being held as a form of people’s control of the power in Indonesia. Before 2019 election...

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Main Author: Azis Setyagama
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Modern Humanitarian Researches 2020-07-01
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description Indonesia is one of the largest democracies in the world. Indonesian citizens have the highest power where the will of the people is the will of the state. To channel the will of the people general elections are being held as a form of people’s control of the power in Indonesia. Before 2019 elections in Indonesia were held separately between legislative and executive elections. After the Constitutional Court Decision No 14/PUU-XI/2003 general elections in Indonesia are held simultaneously between executive and legislative elections. The impact that occurred after the simultaneous elections were held in 2019, the implementation of this elections took many lives, because many election executive officers died due to fatigue in carrying out tasks due to too much workload and too little time available. This paper represents a normative legal research that examines the norms in given Constitutional Court Decision and Law No 42 of 2008 concerning election of President and Vice President. Besides reviewing from the normative side, the authors also study from sociological studies related to the community’s evaluation of the general elections implementation. From the results of normative and sociological studies it concluded that the simultaneous election in 2019 caused many casualties because election officials were exhausted in carrying out election process. Thus, it is necessary to change the rule of law regarding the implementation of general elections in Indonesia.
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spelling doaj.art-4c1220c71ecf42b3961be2a238f1a4ea2022-12-21T19:21:45ZengInstitute of Modern Humanitarian ResearchesStudia Humanitatis2308-80792020-07-012Problematic of the election policy in IndonesiaAzis Setyagama0Panca Marga University (Probolinggo, Indonesia)Indonesia is one of the largest democracies in the world. Indonesian citizens have the highest power where the will of the people is the will of the state. To channel the will of the people general elections are being held as a form of people’s control of the power in Indonesia. Before 2019 elections in Indonesia were held separately between legislative and executive elections. After the Constitutional Court Decision No 14/PUU-XI/2003 general elections in Indonesia are held simultaneously between executive and legislative elections. The impact that occurred after the simultaneous elections were held in 2019, the implementation of this elections took many lives, because many election executive officers died due to fatigue in carrying out tasks due to too much workload and too little time available. This paper represents a normative legal research that examines the norms in given Constitutional Court Decision and Law No 42 of 2008 concerning election of President and Vice President. Besides reviewing from the normative side, the authors also study from sociological studies related to the community’s evaluation of the general elections implementation. From the results of normative and sociological studies it concluded that the simultaneous election in 2019 caused many casualties because election officials were exhausted in carrying out election process. Thus, it is necessary to change the rule of law regarding the implementation of general elections in Indonesia.http://st-hum.ru/en/node/927/general electionssimultaneous electionselection processconstitutional courtindonesia
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Problematic of the election policy in Indonesia
Studia Humanitatis
general elections
simultaneous elections
election process
constitutional court
indonesia
title Problematic of the election policy in Indonesia
title_full Problematic of the election policy in Indonesia
title_fullStr Problematic of the election policy in Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Problematic of the election policy in Indonesia
title_short Problematic of the election policy in Indonesia
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topic general elections
simultaneous elections
election process
constitutional court
indonesia
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