Jakarta, dpd.go.id – IDEAS about the implementation of separate elections is being discussed in Public after the Facts of Indonesian Election that is considered has not been able to actualize the effective government as well as causing a lot of problems. One of the ideas comes from chairman Perludem (Association for Election and Democracy), Didik Supriyanto. “One of the significant thing is the separation of the National and Local elections so we can save costs because the elections adequately held twice in a year,” said Didik as the expert in State Dialogue of DPD RI (11/01/12) with the theme “Application of Separated Election for 2014 “. He was also sure the separation of these elections could be applied for the next election of 2014.

The proposal received support from members of the DPD RI, Paulus Yohanes Sumino argues that a lot of the nation’s energy are used to deal with election and democracy. “Building Human Resources is expensive, we need adequate education and economics for the people. We should separate the national and local elections so that the government had enough time to improve the quality of human resources which is the mandate of the statute,” said Paulus in the same event at the DPD RI building, Parliament Complex Senayan Jakarta. Moreover, according to the members of the DPD RI from West Papua Province, Democracy in Indonesia is still shadow because the people has not vote based on their conscience.

The DPR, as the law states maker did not reject the proposal. “DPR are steeped into this idea of simultaneous elections,” said Arif Wibowo, Chairman of the Special Committee of Elections Bill. Moreover, continued Arif, background of the election is to help the actualization an effective government, but the goal is often overlooked by the framers of the Act. (af / de)

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