Penundaan Pemilihan Umum Menurut Sistem Hukum Indonesia

Abstract

The postponement of the 2024 General Elections, which was initiated by certain political elites some time ago, has received a negative response from the public through various protests. In fact, the issue of postponing the election has become a trending topic in the mass media and social media because apart from being considered undemocratic, it is also suspected that it does not have a strong legal basis, clear and unreasonable reasons as a condition for postponing an election. Based on these problems, this study examines whether postponing elections is possible in the Indonesian legal system? This is a normative juridical research with a statutory approach that examines legal materials of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and Law no. 7 of 2017 on General Elections as amended by Government Regulation in lieu of the Law (Perpu) No. 1 of 2022. The results of this study indicate that the postponement of elections cannot be justified in the Indonesian legal system since the 1945 Constitution does not regulate the postponement of elections so that the postponement of the elections for 2024 which was rolled out by the political elite recently has no strong legal reasons and is not justified in the legal system Indonesia.