Politik Hukum Kewenangan Badan Pengawasan Pemilihan Umum

Abstract

The purpose of writing this article is to analyze every birth of General Election Law against The General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) authorities. The existence of the election supervisor institution from time to time has been more independent and more integrated from the terms of political law. This research uses a juridical normative research methode which use statutory approach, conceptual approach, and historical approach. The results of this article indicates that the current Bawaslu institution that has been regulated in Law No. 22 of 2007, Law No. 15 of 2011, and Law No. 7 of 20017 is much better from the terms of its institutional nature which is already fixed at central Bawaslu level, provincial Bawaslu level and currently there are regency/city Bawaslu level, which previously were only ad hoc. The authority Bawaslu has been strengthened with a dispute resolution authority, that is an important authority as the general election supervisory agency