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no longer than April 2024 to elect the

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(MPR) which is consist of DPR and DPD, and members of local legislative bodies. The presidential election, the 5th in the country's history, use a

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, simple majority system. The legislative election, which will be the 13th such election for Indonesia.

Electoral system

The election was regulated by Law No. 7 of 2017. The General Elections Commission (KPU), a legally independent government body was responsible for organizing the election. In addition, the vote was monitored by the Bawaslu, which also had the authority to rule on violations of election rules (e.g. administrative errors, vote-buying, etc.). Any ethical violations committed by either Bawaslu or the KPU were to be handled by the Elections Organizer Honor Council (Dewan Kehormatan Penyelenggara Pemilu DKPP), which consists of one member from each body and five others recommended by the government. Voters will given five ballot papers: for the president and vice president,

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(DPD),

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(DPR), provincial council, and regency/municipal council (''DPRD Provinsi'' and ''DPRD Kabupaten/Kota'') members. Voters use a nail to poke a hole in the ballot paper indicating which party or candidate they wish to vote for, and then dip their fingers in ink as a precaution against voter fraud. The voting age for the election is 17, or less if already married. Indonesians living overseas could vote in either the embassies and consulates, mobile polling stations, or by post.

Presidential

In order to run as a presidential candidate, a candidate must be backed by a political party or a coalition thereof which compose either 20 percent of seats in the

(DPR) or 25 percent of popular votes in the prior election, i.e. in the 2019 election. Political parties are allowed to remain neutral if they are unable to propose their own candidate. However, if a neutral party(s) is able to endorse their own candidate, they are required to do so, or face being barred from participating in the next election. The voting procedure followed a

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, with voters simply choosing one of the candidate pairs. A winning candidate was required to win a

majority A majority, also called a simple majority or absolute majority to distinguish it from #Related terms, related terms, is more than half of the total.Dictionary definitions of ''majority'' aMerriam-WebsterPeople's Representative Council (DPR) and the Regional People's Representative Councils (DPRD) are elected from multi-member electoral districts through voting with an open list system, and seat distribution is done with the Sainte-Laguë method. There is a gender quota requiring at least 30% of registered candidates to be female. A 4%

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is set for parties to be represented in the DPR, though candidates could still win seats in the regional councils provided they won sufficient votes. There are 575 DPR seats contested. Nationally, there are 80 DPR electoral districts, with 272 provincial and 2,206 municipal electoral districts. Candidates for the Regional Representative Council (DPD) are not allowed to be members of a political party. Four members are elected for each province – a total of 136 members.

Presidential election

In July 2017, the People's Representative Council (DPR) confirmed that only parties or coalitions with at least 20% of seats in the legislature, or 25% of votes in the previous election, will be eligible to submit a presidential candidate. Requirements for presidential/vice-presidential candidates are only either Indonesia-born lifelong Indonesian citizens or naturalised citizens who were born abroad and obtained foreign citizenship outside their own will being eligible to run with a minimum age of 40 and a requirement to " have a belief in the One and Only God". If the candidates had spouses, they also had to be Indonesian citizens. A criminal record resulting in over five years of incarceration or an active bankruptcy bar a candidate from running. As of January 2022, the following people have been subjects of speculation about their potential candidacy within the previous six months. *

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* Ridwan Kamil, Governor of West Java * Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs * Puan Maharani,

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Legislative election

All legislative candidates has to be Indonesian citizens, over 21 years old, senior high school (or equivalent) graduates, and have never been convicted for a crime resulting in a sentence of 5 years or more. In addition, the candidates for the

(DPR) or local legislatures has to be endorsed by a political party and are required to resign from their non-legislative government offices – except for the president and vice president – or their

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positions. Legislators running for reelection or another body through a new political party are also required to resign.

Opinion polls

Legislatives polls

Presidential polls

References

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