REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - KPU RI allowed campaign activities in the 2024 Local Elections (Local Elections) series to be held on campus, with records of campaign activities that have been granted permission and do not carry attributes. The Commission confirmed that the move was in accordance with the ruling of the Constitutional Court (MK).

“We would like to convey that some other decisions of the Court, for example related to the regulation of campaign permits on campus, that we must also follow, we treat it equally,” said Chairman of KPU RI Mochammad Afifuddin during a press conference at KPU RI Jakarta, Thursday (22/8/2024) evening.

The Commission will adopt the provisions allowing election campaigns on campus into the Commission's (PKPU) regulations on campaigning. “With regard to the campaign on campus that is allowed, it will later be adapted in other PKPU,” he said.

Earlier, on Tuesday (20/8/2024), the Court in Decision Number: 69/PUU-XXII/2024 ruled that the election campaign may be conducted on campus. Such activities can be carried out as long as they have obtained permission from the campus and do not carry campaign attributes.

The Court granted the application of two students of the Faculty of Law of the University of Indonesia, Sandy Yudha Pratama Hulu and Stefanie Gloria. In its judgment, the Court declared the phrase “place of education” in Article 69 (i) of Law No. 1 of 2015 to be contrary to the Basic Law.

Therefore, the article is meant to be:

“Excluded for colleges that received permission from the college responsible or other designation and were present without the attributes of an election campaign.”

According to the Court, exceptions to the ban on campaigning in colleges can provide an opportunity to the academic civitas to become one of the organizing locomotives of a campaign to be steeped in the vision, mission, and program of work offered by a candidate for regional head.

“In addition to the gathering place of some novice voters and critical voters, excluding the ban on campaigning in colleges means opening up the opportunity for conducting a more constructive dialogical campaign that will ultimately boil down to political maturity for the community,” Constitutional Judge M. Guntur Hamzah read out the legal considerations.

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