How Election Works In Indonesia, Guide To Indonesia S 2019 Elections Indonesia Expat

More than 192 million people were eligible to cast their ballot to select 20000 local and national lawmakers.

Election night 2020 results. The kpu itself has also raised concerns in the past over the ability of graft and other criminal suspects to run legally in indonesias elections. After the 2009 legislative elections two of indonesias largest parties called for the presidential election to be rerun. Ben bland indonesia correspondent explains one of the worlds most complicated elections as the country prepares to elect both chambers of its legislature and a new president.

Indonesia held presidential national and regional elections last month in one of the biggest voting exercises held on a single day anywhere in the world. Language law and looking past the boats. For the first time in the countrys history the president the vice president members of the peoples consultative assembly mpr and members of local legislative bodies were elected on the same day with over 190 million eligible voters.

Since then the president is elected for a five year term as are the 575 member peoples representative council dewan perwakilan rakyat dpr the 136 seat regional representative council dewan perwakilan daerah in. Perhaps most important of all at the national level violence has not been a problem in any of indonesias three post 1998 elections there have been incidents at the local level. Indonesia goes to the polls twice in 2014 for both parliamentary and presidential elections.

Nine indonesian police officers died carrying out election work. Aprils runoff election in jakarta and the 2019 presidential elections will likely prove even greater tests of indonesias 19 year old democracy. Indonesia voted on wednesday in one of the worlds largest one day elections.

The party mechanism does not work. General elections were held in indonesia on 17 april 2019. Elections in indonesia have taken place since 1955 to elect a legislatureat a national level indonesian people did not elect a head of state the president until 2004.

For more video. According to the kpu 1928 million voters are eligible to cast their vote in one of 809500 polling stations scattered across the archipelago. It will be the fourth time indonesia has held elections since president suharto resigned in 1998 after.