Politics · Indonesia · 2 hrs ago
Golkar lawmaker urges delay to Indonesia’s KPU selection panel
Golkar lawmaker Ahmad Doli Kurnia opposes forming the KPU selection panel now.
The panel helps Indonesia’s president screen candidates for the country’s General Election Commission, whose commissioners serve from 2027 to 2032.
Parliament is still revising the 2017 election law, and Doli says candidates should be tested on the law they will have to apply.
He warns that selecting commissioners before the revision is complete could mean testing them on rules that may soon change.
Doli proposes changing the rule that requires the panel to form six months before commissioners’ terms end, or delaying the final selection stages until the revised law is ready.
Another lawmaker said the president had signed a decree forming the panel and that it was awaiting announcement, but Doli’s comments do not establish whether it has been formally announced.
The panel’s formation and the law revision remain unresolved, and no next step or timetable is confirmed here.
Golkar lawmaker Ahmad Doli Kurnia said the selection panel for Indonesia’s election commission should not be formed while parliament is revising the election law.
He warned that candidates could be tested on rules that are being changed or on a new law whose contents are not yet final.
Doli proposed either changing the legal deadline for forming the panel or aligning the selection timetable with the completion of the law revision.
PKS lawmaker Mardani Ali Sera said the panel had been formed and was awaiting an announcement.
The panel is to help the president select commissioners for the 2027-2032 term.
- Who
- Ahmad Doli Kurnia, a Golkar member of the House of Representatives’ Commission II, called for delaying the panel’s formation.
- What
- He said the KPU selection panel should not be formed while the election law is being revised.
- When
- Doli made the remarks on Monday, October 26. The article was published October 27, 2026.
- Where
- At the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Jakarta.
- Why
- He said candidates might be tested on the existing law even though it is being revised, or might not know the contents of a new law that is still unfinished.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Mardani Ali Sera said the president had signed a decree forming the KPU selection panel and that it was awaiting an announcement.
Doli Kurnia said he opposed forming the panel while the election law was under revision.
- Lawmaker
- Ahmad Doli Kurnia of Golkar
- Selection panel term
- 2027-2032
- Proposed legal change
- A government regulation in lieu of law amending one article on the panel’s formation deadline
- Names sent to parliament
- 14
- Commissioners chosen by parliament
- 7
What people are saying
I am among those who actually do not agree with the selection panel being formed now
It would be strange for the exam or selection to use the old law
How can they take the test when the law is about to be revised
The KPU selection panel has been formed and is just waiting to be announced