Democracy is a system of government where the people have the right to choose their leaders through elections. One of the main characteristics of democracy is the periodic conduct of elections. In Indonesia, elections are the political mechanism for the people to elect the president and vice president, as well as legislative members at the national, provincial, and regency/city levels. Elections are held every five years, in accordance with the provisions in the 1945 Constitution. Besides elections, there are also regional elections (Pilkada) conducted to elect regional heads at the provincial and regency levels.

“PKS has the Chairman of DPRD DKI. They can’t take the deputy governor position too. I think Anies-Pras is ideal,” …

Acting Governor of West Sulawesi (Sulbar) Bahtiar Baharuddin, together with elements of the Regional Leadership Coordination Forum (Forkopimda) in the 33rd province, attended the Coordination Meeting on the Preparedness for the 2024 Simultaneous Regional Elections for the Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Maluku regions in Makassar on Wednesday (26/06/24).

Head of the West Java Provincial KPU, Ummi Wahyuni, stated that the simultaneous regional elections in West Java will cost …

Wasekjen of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Syaiful Huda, stated that the change in stance of PKS, which initially nominated Sohibul Iman as the gubernatorial candidate (calon gubernur) and then changed to making him the deputy gubernatorial candidate (cawagub) for Anies Baswedan, is a form of internal confusion within PKS.

According to Huda, another PKS confusion is pairing Anies-Sohibul directly, which he considers a blunder. “The ensuing problem is immediately …