Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law, Economic, Governance, ICOLEG 2021, 29-30 June 2021, Semarang, Indonesia

Research Article

Elimination of Parliamentary Threshold and Efforts of Democratization in Parliament

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.29-6-2021.2312591,
        author={Amalia  Diamantina and Lita Tyesta Adi Listiya Wardhani and Diastama Anggita Ramadhan and Sandra Leoni Prakasa Yakub},
        title={Elimination of Parliamentary Threshold and Efforts of Democratization in Parliament},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law, Economic, Governance, ICOLEG 2021, 29-30 June 2021, Semarang, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICOLEG},
        year={2021},
        month={10},
        keywords={parliamentary threshold democracy parliament},
        doi={10.4108/eai.29-6-2021.2312591}
    }
    
  • Amalia Diamantina
    Lita Tyesta Adi Listiya Wardhani
    Diastama Anggita Ramadhan
    Sandra Leoni Prakasa Yakub
    Year: 2021
    Elimination of Parliamentary Threshold and Efforts of Democratization in Parliament
    ICOLEG
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.29-6-2021.2312591
Amalia Diamantina1,*, Lita Tyesta Adi Listiya Wardhani1, Diastama Anggita Ramadhan1, Sandra Leoni Prakasa Yakub2
  • 1: Universitas Diponegoro
  • 2: Universitas Indonesia
*Contact email: amaliadiamantina.undip@gmail.com

Abstract

In the 2019 election, the size of the parliamentary threshold is 4%. The use of the parliamentary threshold is very burdensome for small and new parties and often gives injustice. For this reason, the author will discuss the evaluation of the use of the parliamentary threshold and the solution to the abolition of the parliamentary threshold. This research is juridical normative, which is carried out by examining library materials or secondary data in the form of primary and secondary legal materials. The parliamentary threshold is benefit large parties already relatively well-established, and also impacts wasted voter vote acquisition on parties that cannot the minimum parliamentary threshold votes. It has implications on disproportionalitof seats. Necessary remove the parliamentary threshold so that parties with votes below 4% get seats. Worries about the large number of parties in parliament which will affect the stability of the government, is to simplify the factions in the DPR or reduce the number of seats in each electoral district which is followed up by changing the quota mechanism for one seat to a fixed seat, this matter to make political decision making in the DPR more effective, and efforts to democratize in the parliament.