PPP Proposes Lowering the Parliamentary Threshold
The United Development Party (PPP) has proposed that the parliamentary threshold for the 2029 general election be abolished or lowered from the current level.
The party’s politician, Usman Muhammad Tokan, also known as Donnie Tokan, said that his party hopes that the parliamentary threshold will be below 4% or a maximum of 3%.
“If it can’t be 0%, a maximum of 3% would be good enough, so that votes are not wasted,” said Donnie via WhatsApp message on Thursday, February 26, 2026.
He hopes that the eight factions of political parties in the DPR (House of Representatives) can accommodate the aspirations of parties outside parliament and academics regarding the determination of the parliamentary threshold, which will be discussed in the revision of the current Election Law.
PPP, he said, is also confident that it will soon return to Senayan (the parliament building) after previously being eliminated due to not meeting the threshold.
“God willing, in 2029, PPP will return to parliament, rise again,” said Donnie.
Referring to the results of the national vote recapitulation announced by the General Election Commission in the 2024 election, PPP was one of the 18 parties that did not qualify for Senayan.
The party, which has the Kaaba as its symbol, received 5,879,777 votes, or 3.87%, in 38 provinces and 128 regions.
The parliamentary threshold in effect for the 2024 election was 4%.
As a result, for the first time since its establishment in 1973, PPP had to be eliminated from the DPR because its vote share was not enough to exceed the established parliamentary threshold.
The Constitutional Court, in case number 116/PUU-XVIII/2023, decided to abolish the 4% parliamentary threshold as stipulated in the Election Law.
In its legal considerations, the Court argued that the parliamentary threshold provision is not in line with the principles of popular sovereignty, electoral justice, and violates the legal certainty guaranteed by the constitution.
The Court continued, the provision of Article 414 paragraph (1) of the Election Law is conditionally constitutional to be applied in the 2029 election and beyond, as long as it has been amended.