PAN Rejects Proposal for Parliamentary Threshold in Regional Councils
The National Mandate Party (PAN) has rejected the idea of implementing a parliamentary threshold in regional legislative elections.
PAN Deputy Chairman Viva Yoga Mauladi stated that a threshold cannot be applied at the regional level because local elections operate in a different context from national ones.
“This could reduce or even eliminate the value of political party diversity in the regions,” Viva said when contacted by Tempo on Wednesday, 6 May 2026.
Nevertheless, he continued, empirical evidence shows that local DPRD elections without a threshold have not caused any problems so far. Therefore, the proposal is considered irrelevant.
Viva also reminded that a faction threshold already exists in the current DPRD to regulate political fragmentation.
“The Constitutional Court in its Decision Number 52/PUU-X/2012 has also annulled this proposal,” said the Deputy Minister of Transmigration.
The Constitutional Court Decision Number 52/PUU-X/2012, among other things, annulled the provisions of Articles 208 and 209 of Law Number 8 of 2012 on Elections for Members of the DPR, DPD, and DPRD, particularly regarding the threshold for determining the allocation of DPRD seats at levels I and II.
Before being annulled, those articles contained regulations requiring a 3.5 per cent threshold of valid national votes for a party to be included in the allocation of DPR and DPRD seats.
Previously, the proposal to apply a threshold down to the DPRD level was put forward by Golkar Deputy Chairman Ahmad Doli Kurnia Tandjung. He assessed that a threshold for DPRD could be implemented in stages or smaller than the threshold applied to DPR elections.
“For example, 5 per cent for the DPR. Then, for provincial DPRD, it could be 4 per cent, and for regency/city, 3 per cent,” Doli said when contacted on Tuesday, 22 April 2026.
Similarly to Doli, Chairman of Commission II of the DPR Muhammad Rifqinizamy Karyasuda also proposed the implementation of a threshold for DPRD. His reason was that this policy is considered important to create effective governance.
“We propose that the threshold applies not only at the national level, but also at the provincial and regency/city levels,” said the NasDem politician on Thursday, 24 April 2026.