Organizing Democracy through General Elections in Indonesia: The Challenge of Law Enforcement and State Stability

Abstract

One of the developments in Indonesia's political democracy is marked by the existence of legal framework that state sovereignty belongs to the people and is carried out in accordance with the 1945 Constitution. On the basis of the formulation of leadership succession in the executive and legislative branches it is mandated by Article 22 E paragraph (2). However, in practice the constitutional arrangement in Law Number 42 of 2008 concerning the General Election of the President and Vice President shows that it is inconsistent with statements in the constitution. As stipulated in Article 3 paragraph (5) states that the election of the President and Vice President is held after the election of the DPR, DPD and DPRD. At the end of the Constitutional Court through Decree No. 14/PUU-XI/2013 states that the selection of models is unconstitutional. Based on this assessment the constitutionality of the norm selection method is based on the simultaneous interpretation of the constitution both from the initial intentions and historical interpretations. The simultaneous constitutional electoral plan was called born as an effort to shift the direction of the transition to democracy in a strengthening system so that democratic consolidation of direct democratic practices tends to be transactional, corrupt, manipulative, high cost and to preserve power can be minimized in the practice of constitutional democratic dimensions to understand and sovereign.

Implementasi e-voting dalam pemilihan lurah di kabupaten sleman: ditinjau melalui perspektif dynamic governance

“…Penerapan konsep Dynamic Governance dalam e-voting di Kabupaten Sleman memudahkan penelitian karena memberikan kerangka kerja yang komprehensif untuk menganalisis interaksi antara pemangku kepentingan, dinamika perubahan teknologi, serta efektivitas kebijakan dan implementasi e-voting. Hal ini memungkinkan peneliti untuk memahami faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi keberhasilan e-voting dan merumuskan rekomendasi kebijakan yang relevan [27]. Dynamic Governance memiliki tiga kapabilitas dinamis, yaitu Think Ahead, Think Again, dan Think Across, yang memfasilitasi kebijakan adaptif.…”

Recall on Village Heads Election: An Election Law Reform

“…Participation is an important aspect of the democratic process (Lee, Heffron, & Mirza, 2019). Political participation is an organized effort by citizens to elect their leaders and influence the shape and course of public policy (Lee et al, 2019;Arifin & Hidayat, 2019). Political participation as an activity of a person or group of people to participate actively in political life, namely by choosing the country's leadership directly or indirectly influencing government policies.…”

“…The commitment of all related parties, in minimizing the access to money politic must be given appreciation. Because it started with the democratic party of the village community that good political education should be taught (Jaung, Carrasco, & Bae, 2019;Arifin & Hidayat, 2019). (1).…”