NasDem Proposes Increase in Parliamentary Threshold, Applicable from Province to City Level

Chairman of Commission II of the Indonesian House of Representatives from the NasDem faction, Rifqinizamy Karsayuda, has proposed raising the parliamentary threshold to apply at the provincial, regency, or city levels. According to him, this is necessary to ensure that the government consists of healthy parties.

Rifqinizamy initially responded to the proposal regarding the national-level parliamentary threshold above 4%. He believes that this threshold should be maintained and it would not be a problem if it were eventually set at 7%.

“Regarding the parliamentary threshold, NasDem Party has stated from the outset that the parliamentary threshold must be continuously maintained and we even propose increasing it from the current percentage,” Rifqinizamy told reporters on Friday (24/4/2026).

“Increasing from 4% to a moderate figure above 5%, 5.5, 6, up to 7%,” he added.

Rifqinizamy stated that the existence of a parliamentary threshold at the DPR level is important to ensure that parties carry out proper institutionalisation. According to him, implementing this threshold will make the structure of political parties stronger.

“The reason is that with the parliamentary threshold, there will be institutionalisation or institutionalisation of political parties. The institutionalisation of political parties is reflected in the strength of the party’s structural roots and the significance of the party’s votes in elections,” he said.

He then proposed that this increase in threshold should also apply to legislative elections at the provincial to city levels. His side has prepared several proposals related to this threshold.

“Well, that’s the second point, we propose that the parliamentary threshold applies not only at the national level, but also at the provincial, regency, city levels. There are several formulas that we can provide for this parliamentary threshold,” said Rifqinizamy.

Rifqinizamy elaborated on the proposal for a tiered parliamentary threshold, starting from the highest at the national level and decreasing to the provincial DPRD and regency or city levels. He also proposed a single standard, where if the national threshold is not met, votes at the provincial to city levels will be nullified.

“The first is a tiered parliamentary threshold. For example, 6% for national, 5% for provincial, and or 4% for regency. Or a parliamentary threshold that uses a single standard, but then has consequences up to the provincial, regency, city levels,” said Rifqinizamy.

“For example, 6% national parliamentary threshold, and if a certain political party does not meet the 6% national parliamentary threshold, then automatically the votes and or seats at the provincial, regency, city levels are declared invalid or nullified,” he continued.

According to him, implementing a threshold in legislative elections is important to ensure that future governments consist of healthy political parties. He mentioned that there will be firm positions as government parties or non-government parties that carry out checks and balances functions.

“This is also important to build what we call government effectiveness or effective governance, where future governments consist of healthy political parties and therefore they will be able to play their roles well as government parties or non-government parties to carry out checks and balances,” he added.