Criminal Law Policy toward the Nomination of Legislative Members in the Legislative Election in Indonesia

Abstract

Political rights are rights owned by someone to carry out the process of choosing and being elected. Ahead of the implementation and stages of the general election and the election of legislative candidates in 2019 appear surface related to the political rights of legislative candidates who are former prisoners. The birth of the General Election Commission Regulation Number 20 of 2018 concerning the Nomination of Legislative Members in general elections, where PKPU prohibits legislative candidates who are former corruption inmates, former narcotics prisoners and prisoners of sexual violence against children. In this regard, the following is an assessment of the political rights of ex-prisoners in nominating in the legislative elections, the approach used in this study uses a normative juridical method.