INDONESIA

ELECTORAL SYSTEM
 
Chamber:
  Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat
 
Electoral Law:
  17 December 1969
  Last amendment: 07/01/1985
 
Constituencies:
  33 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the provinces.
 
Voting System:
  The number of seats from each constituency was decided by the General Election Commission. Direct party-list system with proportional distribution of seats according to the simple (Hare) quotient. Remaining seats are allocated through greatest remainders.
Vacancies arising between general elections are filled by a person chosen by the former Representative's party.
Voting is greatly encouraged, but it is not compulsory.
 
Voter requirements:
  - age: 17 years or married at the time of registration
- Indonesian citizenship
- disqualifications: insanity, ex-members of the prohibited Indonesian Communist Party or affiliated mass organisations, direct or indirect involvement in the attempted Communist coup of 1965, imprisonment or confinement of at least five years' duration, members of the armed forces
 
Eligibility:
  Qualified electors
- age: 21 years
- Indonesian citizenship
- proficiency in Indonesian language
- graduation from a secondary high school or equivalent knowledge and experience in social and governmental activities
- loyalty to Pancasila as the basic ideology of the State
 
Incompatibilities:
  - members of the armed forces (to elected seats)
- civil servants
 
Candidacy requirements:
  - nomination by political parties or functional organisations, each supported by at least two members of the leadership of the organisation concerned


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