In Dec. 2019, after months of public debates, the General Election Commission (KPU) decided to postpone the publication of a regulation that would ban ex-graft convicts from participating in regional elections. On Dec. 11, 2019, the Constitutional Court decided to partially grant the judicial review petition filed by the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) and the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem). The Constitutional Court ruled that ex-graft convicts must wait for five years after completing their prison term before they could enter politics. Unfortunately, problems remain.
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