As President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has consolidated stronger support from political parties, the government is preparing revisions of election laws to enable simultaneous legislative and presidential elections in 2019. The Constitutional Court ruled in early 2014 that the country would start holding presidential and legislative elections on the same day, in response to a judicial review challenging a 2008 Presidential Election Law stipulation that legislative and presidential elections be held at least three months apart. The petitioners argued that the time gap between the two elections--in which legislative elections precede presidential election —...
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