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Workers unloading ballot boxes in Jakarta the day before the election. The Indonesian Government budgeted Rp 25 trillion (~USD 1.7 billion) for the election preparations in 2022–2023, over half of which was used by the General Elections Commission (KPU) and most of the remaining funds used by the General Election Supervisory Agency. [111]
Indonesia's first general election elected members of the DPR and the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia (Konstituante). The election was organised by the government of Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo. Sastroamidjojo himself declined to stand for election, and Burhanuddin Harahap became prime minister. The election occurred in two stages:
The general election period is regulated in Article 6A and Article 22E of the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and by the Law on General Elections.The presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairs are proposed by political parties or coalitions of political parties that have at least 20% of the seats in the House of Representatives (DPR) or at least 25% of the national vote from ...
The President of Indonesia is directly elected every five years. As stipulated in Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, incumbent President Prabowo Subianto is eligible to run for a second term. The presidential election was required to be held before the end of his current term on 20 October 2029.
The election was described as "one of the most complicated single-day ballots in global history." [3] Jokowi's 85.6 million votes were the most votes cast for a single candidate in any democratic election in Indonesia's history, exceeding the record of his predecessor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who won 73.8 million votes in 2009. [4]
At least 4 political parties declined to legitimize the result of the 2019 Indonesian general election due to allegations of fraud. [81] With a total vote of 85.607.362 (55%), Joko Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin was announced by the Indonesian General Elections Commission as the winner of the 2019 Indonesian general election. [82]
In the immediate aftermath of the 2019 Indonesian presidential election, a number of pollsters began to consider Ganjar as a likely candidate in 2024, [3] and by 2020 he was already one of the highest-polling prospective candidates. [4] By mid-2022, Indonesian media began interpreting Jokowi's actions as showing support for Ganjar. [5]
The election occurred as part of the general election, which also included elections for the president, members of the national House of Representatives (DPR), and members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD). Elections were held in all 38 Indonesian provinces, along with 415 of Indonesia's 416 regencies and 93 of 98 cities.