More on the Plan to Ban Former Graft Convicts from Running in Legislative Elections

The debate on the plan to ban ex-graft-convicts from participating in legislative election continues. The Ministry of Law and Human Rights refused to promulgate the regulation drafted by the General Election Commission (KPU) stating that they did not want to violate the law. This led to more debates on the Ministry’s authority. But the KPU gained support from plenty of parties. Recently, we learned that the Ministry had actually promulgated a regulation with a similar provision back in April 2018, but related to individual participants of the legislative election for Regional Representative Council (DPD). To subscribe please click here