Political Party Electability Amid Parliamentary Threshold Controversy

The parliamentary threshold (PT) has become a topic of discourse amid plans to discuss revisions to Law No. 7 of 2017 on General Elections (Pemilu). Indonesian political parties have voiced their proposals along with their reasons, ranging from 0, 3, 4, to 7 percent for the parliamentary threshold. Nevertheless, Deputy Speaker of the DPR Sufmi Dasco Ahmad stated that his institution would not rush the discussion of the election law revision. “For now, please let’s all be patient. We want to create an Election Law that is truly, well, not perfect but close to perfect,” Dasco said when met at the DPR RI Building on Tuesday (21/4/2026). Dasco also recalled previous experiences when the Election Law was frequently challenged and decided by the Constitutional Court (MK). He does not want a similar situation to recur due to rushed discussions. “We’ve gone back and forth with the Election Law being challenged, the MK annulling, the MK deciding on this and that, then the MK deciding on others again. Don’t let us rush or hurry the Election Law, only for it to be challenged again later,” Dasco said. The survey results can provide an overview of which political parties could enter parliament if elections were held today. Here is a summary by Kompas.com of several survey results on political party electability: In October 2025, Indonesia Political Opinion (IPO) released survey results regarding the electability of eight political parties in the DPR for the 2024-2029 period. The highest is the Gerindra Party with 33.5 percent, followed by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) with electability of 16.4 percent. IPO Executive Director Dedi Kurnia Syah said that these figures were found through simulations when respondents were asked if elections were held today. “The highest is the Gerindra Party in the current situation, namely 33.5 percent,” Dedi said during a press conference in the Cikini area, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday (21/10/2025).