Gerindra: Limiting Political Party Leaders' Terms Not KPK's Domain

Daily Chairman of the Gerindra Party’s Central Executive Board, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, said he would first study the Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK) proposal to limit the positions of political party general chairmen.

Nevertheless, Dasco said the KPK should not enter that domain. “Well, it shouldn’t enter that realm, but we’ll study it first,” said this Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives when contacted by Tempo on Thursday, 23 April 2026.

PDIP also responded to the Corruption Eradication Commission’s proposal regarding the limitation of political party general chairmen positions. PDIP politician Guntur Romli assessed that the proposal exceeds the KPK’s authority or is ultra vires to the KPK’s duties. “That means the KPK has gone beyond its main duties and functions (tupoksi),” said Guntur Romli in a written statement to Tempo on Thursday, 23 April 2026.

Guntur said the KPK’s focus should be on prosecuting and preventing corruption related to state officials and state financial losses in accordance with the KPK Law.

In addition to being outside the KPK’s authority, he assessed that this proposal is vulnerable to politicisation, through intervention in party leadership duration it is very prone to misuse as a political tool. “If this rule is implemented through state regulations, there is concern that those in power can use this instrument to ‘overthrow’ political opponents who have strong mass bases in their parties just because of tenure issues, not because of performance or legal violations,” said Guntur.

This proposal emerged from the results of a study by the KPK’s Monitoring Directorate. The study found at least four points of issues in party governance. The four points are the absence of a roadmap for political education implementation, integrated cadre system standards, financial reporting systems, and oversight bodies.

This anti-corruption agency also formulated several recommendations for improving party governance. One of them is through revisions to Law Number 2 of 2011 on Political Parties, particularly Article 29 on political recruitment.

The study proposes a limit on the leadership periods of political party general chairmen. “To ensure the implementation of cadre development, regulation of the limit on general chairman leadership to a maximum of two terms of office is needed,” states the KPK report on 20 April 2026.