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The House of Representatives unanimously passed on Thursday a law to create another new province in the underdeveloped region of Papua, expecting that this will allow the government to redraw electoral districts in all four new provinces ahead of the 2024 general election.
Policymakers are debating how to redraw the electoral districts in the three new Papuan provinces ahead of the 2024 elections and seem to be leaning in favor of a presidential regulation, which goes against expert views, especially on election principles.
As Indonesia is still grappling with rising COVID-19 infections, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has urged the government to revise the 2015 Regional Elections Law through a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) in order to impose strict health protocols during campaigns for the upcoming simultaneous regional elections.
A group has submitted a challenge to the Constitutional Court against a regulation recently issued by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo postponing this year’s simultaneous regional elections until December, and have instead called for the elections to be postponed until the risk of COVID-19 transmission has subsided.
The Constitutional Court will proceed with the judicial review petition filed against the executive order on the COVID-19 pandemic response as it has summonsed President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and the House of Representatives to the hearing next week as witnesses.
