Restriction of Political Party Coalition to Prevent Single Candidates in Regional Head Election

Ahmad Siboy, Moh. Fadl, Airin Liemanto

2018

Abstract

The pattern of political party coalition in proposing candidates for regional head tends to be based on momentary interest, thus generating many single candidates in various regions. The phenomenon of single candidate has neglected people's rights to have the choice of more than one pair of candidates considering that Regional Head Election or Pilkada is the implementation of people's sovereignty to choose the one that deserves to be the regional head. This study aims to analyze the coalition pattern of Political Parties and find the formula of restriction of political party coalition to prevent the emergence of single candidate. The research result shows that the coalition pattern of political parties in regional head election is not based on the vision and mission of political parties and people interests, and thus people are disadvantaged as they lose their right to have a choice of candidates in the regional head election. To prevent the recurrence of a single candidate in the regional head election, it can be done by restricting political party coalition through various means such as limiting the number of political party coalitions or restriction through ownership of seats in the Regional People’s Representative Council (DPRD). Limiting coalition will serve as an appropriate solution to avoid any potential of single candidate and it gives resolution to disputes in Regional Head Election in accordance with the provision of legislation. There will always be only one candidate pair, which certainly leads to who could represent the empty box to submit a case and or who could be charged by a candidate pair as defeated due to the empty box. Furthermore, the absence of political party with only single candidate pair also prevents from the absence of authority at regional level as there is no victory obtained in empty box

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Siboy A., Fadl M. and Liemanto A. (2018). Restriction of Political Party Coalition to Prevent Single Candidates in Regional Head Election.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1098-1103. DOI: 10.5220/0009923310981103

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Ahmad Siboy and Moh. Fadl and Airin Liemanto},
title={Restriction of Political Party Coalition to Prevent Single Candidates in Regional Head Election},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1098-1103},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009923310981103},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Restriction of Political Party Coalition to Prevent Single Candidates in Regional Head Election
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Siboy A.
AU - Fadl M.
AU - Liemanto A.
PY - 2018
SP - 1098
EP - 1103
DO - 10.5220/0009923310981103