The Role of Election Commission of

Indonesia (KPU)
 Moment of Change
• New Order 1967 – 1998 dominantly Golkar shifted to multy parties

• 1999 : post New Order election toward multy parties, legislative and
presidential elections (2004), local authonomy, direct election for head of
regional government (2005) in provinces, districts, cities

• 2015, 2017, 2018 estabblished of simultaneously election for head of regional

governments

• 2015 : 365 consist of provinces, districts, cities

• 2017 : 101 consist of provinces, district, cities
• 2018 : 171 consist of provinces, districts, cities

• Public partisipation, people enthusiastic talk “politics” are rising...

 3 Model of ECI

Mixed ( Gov, Government

Independent (2004
Parties in 1999 (Soeharto’s New
election---)
election) Order 1971 –
1997 election
Independent +
Governmental
Hard Work for ECI / KPU : Manage,
Organize the most complicated
election nation wide
 The Challenges : 2019 Election
• Manage 186.379.878 voters listed for legislatives and
presidential election in 34 provinces, 415 districts, 93 cities

• Manage 77 dictrict election nation wide

• 799.855 polling stations in 82.707 cities , villages

• Manual election, voters go to the polling station, cast the ballot

• EMB offices at polling station authorize to count, calculate,

make sure that the ballots are legitimate
Election is “Party” (fun, fiesta, public
holiday, back to hometown)
Funniest things in Polling Station
For a while political competition covered by expression of togetherness...
 Behind funny things, ECI / KPU faces
complexity of the election

• Preparing, planning, conducting election

• Party Selecting
• Voter registering
• Counting and validating candidate for
legislative seats, presidential, head of regional
government, manually, not yet use of
electronic-based vote
PARTIES PARTICIPATING IN
THE 2019 ELECTION
Staffes make sure that the
votes are valid
Now day challenges : Electoral Malpractices

• Money politics : No....No.. Or take the money

but not vote the canditate !
• Voters Mobilization
• Black campaign
• Hoax/ Social Media
• Politics of identity to downgrade candidate
(ethnic, religion)
Clean , equal campaign, nation wide
Strict regulations, implemented
consistantly : Election Law No.7/
2017

How do the Law cope money politics ?

Evidences ? Witnesses ?
 The Commisioner
Complexity of the election puts ECI/ KPU to act
professionally with the commissioners who
oversees the election problems. So, they have
to :
• Independence
• Integrity
• Profesional
• Strong in commitment to conduct free, fair, equal,
democratic, justice elections
Thank you,