Several days ago, we reported that the General Election Commission (KPU) had decided to postpone the publication of a regulation that would ban ex-graft-convicts from participating in the upcoming regional elections. On December 11, 2019, the Constitutional Court (MK) decided to partially grant the judicial review petition filed by the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) and the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem). MK ruled that ex-graft convicts must wait for five years after completing their prison term before they could enter politics. The Decision is a gamechanger, but we have to note that it’s only related to the Law No. 10/2016 on Elections of Regional Leaders.
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