It has fuelled concerns about political interference in the upcoming general and presidential polls. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s Constitutional Court will on Thursday rule on a possible change to the country’s electoral system, a decision that has fuelled concerns about political interference in the upcoming February 2024 general and presidential polls.
Critics say the change would take the world’s third-largest democracy back to the era of authoritarian rule, when only heads of political parties were empowered to appoint lawmakers.The timing of the case, just eight months out from next year’s simultaneous presidential and legislative elections, has raised eyebrows in South-east Asia’s biggest country, with many speculating that attempts are underway to engineer an election delay through unorthodox legal means.
President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, has denied that he is seeking to extend his time in office beyond the two-term limit and recently stated that he would not do anything that would “tarnish democracy”. It reasoned at the time that an open list provided voters more information about the individuals they were electing.
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