Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
There, Indonesia's 34 provinces treated as constituencies and, regardless of the size and population, every province return four senators. Starting from the 2015 unified local elections, Indonesia started to elect governors and mayors simultaneously on the same date.
Workers unloading ballot boxes in Jakarta the day before the election. The Indonesian Government budgeted Rp 25 trillion (~USD 1.7 billion) for the election preparations in 2022–2023, over half of which was used by the General Elections Commission (KPU) and most of the remaining funds used by the General Election Supervisory Agency. [111]
The general election period is regulated in Article 6A and Article 22E of the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and by the Law on General Elections.The presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairs are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties that have at least 20% of the seats in the House of Representatives (DPR) or at least 25% of the national vote from ...
2024 Indonesian local election logo. All local elections in 2024 except for the Jakarta gubernatorial election follow the first-past-the-post system where the candidate with the most votes wins the election, even if they do not win a majority. The gubernatorial election for Jakarta requires a runoff should no candidates achieve a simple majority.
The election occurred as part of the general election, which also included elections for the president, members of the national House of Representatives (DPR), and members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD). Elections were held in all 38 Indonesian provinces, along with 415 of Indonesia's 416 regencies and 93 of 98 cities.
The election was described as "one of the most complicated single-day ballots in global history." [3] Jokowi's 85.6 million votes were the most votes cast for a single candidate in any democratic election in Indonesia's history, exceeding the record of his predecessor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who won 73.8 million votes in 2009. [4]
The 2024 Indonesian local election law protests, also known as Emergency Alert for Indonesia (Indonesian: Peringatan Darurat Indonesia) or Indonesian Democratic Emergency (Indonesian: Indonesia Darurat Demokrasi), [28] were public and student-led demonstrations against the House of Representatives for drafting a bill on regional head elections (Pilkada) that contradicts the Constitutional ...
The gubernatorial election for Jakarta, uniquely for Indonesia's local elections, required a runoff should no candidates achieve a simple majority. [3] It is possible for a candidate to run uncontested, in which case the candidate is still required to win a majority of votes "against" an "empty box" option. Should the candidate fail to do so ...