Party faction stalemate looks sure to end in vote
Ridwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 03/08/2012 8:11 AM
Having failed to reach a consensus on some crucial issues in the election bill, the political party factions in the House of Representatives (DPR) have decided to settle their differences through votes.
The House factions have spent months trying to reach agreements on four crucial issues through deliberation and lobbying, but to no avail.
Among the unsettled issues concern electoral districts, the electoral system, vote counting and the legislative threshold.
Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) legislator Gandjar Pranowo and Golkar Party secretary-general Idrus Marham separately said that the House had no alternative but to settle these four crucial points through voting at a plenary session.
“We must be aware of the fact that the public is fed up with the large number of political parties. They want to see an effective government and credible lawmakers,” Gandjar said. (Direct Speech)
Given this condition, he said, small political parties and new ones should support a proposed article that would limit on the number of political parties.
“They should not think only about their own existence,” he said. (Direct Speech)
Gandjar said that both the political party law and the election bill made it possible for small parties to merge, contest the election and to win seats at the House. (Indirect Speech)
Democratic Party faction secretary Saan Mustopa meanwhile said the House factions had failed to reach a compromise due to differing agendas, “because the crucial issues will determine the fate of the political parties”. (Direct Speech)
Saan called on House factions to be open to opinions from others and to think of striving for higher goals. “The elite leaders should not only think of how to grow their political parties. They have to think of how to improve democracy and bring prosperity to the people,” (Direct Speech) he said.
Several House factions representing big parties — the Democratic Party, Golkar and the PDI-P — have proposed increasing the legislative threshold by 4-6 percent while the six small parties, including the National Mandate Party (PAN), Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) have stood by the current 2.5 percent. The government has proposed the threshold be set at 3 percent.
Big parties have proposed that electoral districts carry three to eight seats, while small parties have called for the range to be widened to three-10. The government has proposed the range be set at three to six seats, saying this would improve the quality of lawmakers and ensure that they worked more closely with their constituents.
Big parties, with the exception of the PDI-P, have proposed maintaining the existing open proportional system to improve the competency of elect lawmakers. The PDI-P, along with Gerindra, PAN and PKB, wants to go back to the closed system to avoid rivalries between politicians within the same party.
Big parties also proposed a full distribution of seats to all electoral districts with an assumption that remaining votes in electoral districts would be brought to the provincial level to distribute remaining seats as had been done in all previous legislative elections.
Small House factions that could lose out as a result of the new revisions proposed by the larger parties have called on the larger parties to compromise and work together to create win-win solutions for all.
National Awakening Party (PKB) faction chairman Marwan Dja’far said his party would vote unless a compromise was reached in the next few weeks, and that it would look toward its strongholds in Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan to ensure that it met the legislative threshold, whatever it turned out to be. (Indirect Speech)
“But the big parties should bear in mind that the nation was built on a spirit of togetherness, including the minorities,” (Direct Speech) he said.
The House factions have spent months trying to reach agreements on four crucial issues through deliberation and lobbying, but to no avail.
Among the unsettled issues concern electoral districts, the electoral system, vote counting and the legislative threshold.
Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) legislator Gandjar Pranowo and Golkar Party secretary-general Idrus Marham separately said that the House had no alternative but to settle these four crucial points through voting at a plenary session.
“We must be aware of the fact that the public is fed up with the large number of political parties. They want to see an effective government and credible lawmakers,” Gandjar said. (Direct Speech)
Given this condition, he said, small political parties and new ones should support a proposed article that would limit on the number of political parties.
“They should not think only about their own existence,” he said. (Direct Speech)
Gandjar said that both the political party law and the election bill made it possible for small parties to merge, contest the election and to win seats at the House. (Indirect Speech)
Democratic Party faction secretary Saan Mustopa meanwhile said the House factions had failed to reach a compromise due to differing agendas, “because the crucial issues will determine the fate of the political parties”. (Direct Speech)
Saan called on House factions to be open to opinions from others and to think of striving for higher goals. “The elite leaders should not only think of how to grow their political parties. They have to think of how to improve democracy and bring prosperity to the people,” (Direct Speech) he said.
Several House factions representing big parties — the Democratic Party, Golkar and the PDI-P — have proposed increasing the legislative threshold by 4-6 percent while the six small parties, including the National Mandate Party (PAN), Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) have stood by the current 2.5 percent. The government has proposed the threshold be set at 3 percent.
Big parties have proposed that electoral districts carry three to eight seats, while small parties have called for the range to be widened to three-10. The government has proposed the range be set at three to six seats, saying this would improve the quality of lawmakers and ensure that they worked more closely with their constituents.
Big parties, with the exception of the PDI-P, have proposed maintaining the existing open proportional system to improve the competency of elect lawmakers. The PDI-P, along with Gerindra, PAN and PKB, wants to go back to the closed system to avoid rivalries between politicians within the same party.
Big parties also proposed a full distribution of seats to all electoral districts with an assumption that remaining votes in electoral districts would be brought to the provincial level to distribute remaining seats as had been done in all previous legislative elections.
Small House factions that could lose out as a result of the new revisions proposed by the larger parties have called on the larger parties to compromise and work together to create win-win solutions for all.
National Awakening Party (PKB) faction chairman Marwan Dja’far said his party would vote unless a compromise was reached in the next few weeks, and that it would look toward its strongholds in Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan to ensure that it met the legislative threshold, whatever it turned out to be. (Indirect Speech)
“But the big parties should bear in mind that the nation was built on a spirit of togetherness, including the minorities,” (Direct Speech) he said.
Direct Speech :
“We must be aware of the fact that the public is fed up with the large number of political parties. They want to see an effective government and credible lawmakers,” Gandjar said.
Direct Speech diatas merupakan pola kalimat bentuk statement atau kalimat pernyataan sehingga berpola S + P + O, “S + P + O”.
Indirect Speech :
National Awakening Party (PKB) faction chairman Marwan Dja’far said his party would vote unless a compromise was reached in the next few weeks, and that it would look toward its strongholds in Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan to ensure that it met the legislative threshold, whatever it turned out to be.
Demikian pula Indirect Speech diatas merupakan pola kalimat statement atau kalimat pernyataan sehingga polanya S + P + O + (THAT) + S + P + O
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