Pemilu Serentak dan Masa Depan Konsolidasi Demokrasi

Abstract

The development of democracy in Indonesia is running very rapidly after the 1945 amendment. One of the developments within the frame of politics characterized by constitutional formula that provides a basic framework state that sovereignty belongs to the people and carried out in accordance with the Constitution. On the basis of the formulation of the succession of leadership in the executive and legislative branches are directly implemented as the mandate of Article 22 E of paragraph ( 2). However, in practice the constitutional arrangements in the Law Number 42 Year 2008 concerning General Pemlihan President and Vice President shows inconsistent with the statement in the constitution . As set out in Article 3 paragraph ( 5 ) states that the election of President and Vice- President held after an election DPR, DPD and DPRD. At the end of the Constitutional Court through Decision No. 14/PUU-XI/2013 stated that the selection of models is unconstitutional. Based on that assessment constitutionality of norms selection method based on the simultaneous interpretation of the constitution of both the original intent and interpretation of history. Design constitutional elections simultaneously referred born as an attempt to shift the direction of the transition towards democracy in the reinforcement system in order consolidation of democratic practice direct democracy tends opaque transactional, corrupt, manipulative, high costs and preserve power can be minimized in the practice of constitutional democracy dimention to understand and sovereignty of the people.

Penerapan Asas Pemilu Terhadap Electronic Voting (E-Voting) Pada Pemilu Tahun 2024

“…Konsep pemilihan umum merupakan representasi dari pemaknaan demokrasi yaitu pemerintahan dari rakyat, oleh rakyat, dan untuk rakyat (democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people) sehingga dalam hal ini dapat di buat pengertian bahwa kekuasaan tertinggi negara berada ditangan rakyat dan seluruh kegiatan tersebut prinsipnya berada diatas kekuasaan rakyat. atas dasar itulah diperlukannya sebuah metode atau cara yang disebut dengan pemilihan umum (Pemilu) sebagai sarana guna mewujudkan prinsip negara demokrasi tersebut (Arrsa, 2016).…”

Design of General Election in Indonesia

“…In addition to strengthening presidential system, simultaneous general election, according to Ria Casmi Arrsa, can overcome the issue of dynasty poltics (Arrsa, 2014). However, Sri Nuryanti also mentioned that the execution of 2019 simultaneous general election was not well managed so that it was not able to strengthen the presidential system because basically 2019 general election was elections that was conducted simultaneously (Nuryanti, 2015).…”

“…Simultaneous Election system in global perspective has actually been applied in many democratic countries. In simultaneous election system, the common practice is to combine the election of executive and legislative members (Arrsa, 2014). Actually, there are many advantages of having simultaneous election.…”

An Analysis of Jakarta's Democracy and Political Power in 2019

“…Apart from legislative general elections, many essential decisions or results, one of which is the presidential election, are obtained through general elections (Arrsa, 2014;U. Wahid, 2013).…”