In Line with Golkar, NasDem Proposes Parliamentary Threshold for Provincial and District/City DPRDs

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The NasDem Party has proposed that the parliamentary threshold should also be applied at the provincial and district/city DPRD levels, not just for the national DPR RI.

“We propose that the parliamentary threshold applies not only at the national level, but also at the provincial, district, and city levels,” stated DPP Chairman of the NasDem Party, Rifqinizamy Karsayuda, when contacted by reporters on Friday (24/4/2026).

“For example, 6% for the national level, 5% for provinces, and or 4% for districts,” he continued.

The NasDem politician, who is also the Chairman of Commission II of the DPR RI, reaffirmed that the party’s stance remains in support of retaining the parliamentary threshold.

In fact, Rifqinizamy added, NasDem is pushing to increase the parliamentary threshold to strengthen the party system in the country.

“The NasDem Party has stated from the outset that the first stance is that the parliamentary threshold must be continuously retained and we even propose raising the percentage from the current 4% to a moderate figure above 5%, 5.5%, 6, up to 7%,” explained Rifqinizamy.

“This is also important for building what we call government effectiveness or an effective government, where future governments consist of healthy political parties and therefore they will be able to play their roles well as either ruling or opposition parties to carry out checks and balances,” he concluded.

It was previously reported that the Golkar Party also proposed a parliamentary threshold for DPRD legislative elections of 4% at the provincial level and 3% at the district/city level in the revision of the Election Law.

Deputy General Chairman of the Golkar Party, Ahmad Doli Kurnia, explained that this scheme is part of a tiered threshold design that also includes the DPR RI.

“For example, 5, 4, 3. 5% for the DPR RI, 4% for the Provincial DPRD, and 3% for the District/City DPRD,” said Doli when contacted on Wednesday (22/4/2026).

However, Doli reminded that determining the threshold figure must consider two main elements, namely people’s representation (representativeness) and government effectiveness (governability).

He desires political stability through the parliamentary threshold at the centre and regions.