Legal Literacy - The discourse on changing the mechanism for electing regional heads from direct to indirect through the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) has been going on for a long time. Even in 2014, the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR RI) succeeded in ratifying Law No. 22 of 2014 concerning the Election of Governors, Regents and Mayors which replaced the process of electing regional heads through the DPRD. However, the law was eventually revoked by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) through the issuance of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) No. 1 of 2014 concerning the Election of Governors, Regents and Mayors. The factions that supported the holding of indirect regional elections at that time included Golkar, PAN, PKS, Gerindra and PPP. Meanwhile, three other parties, namely PDI-P, Hanura and PKB, refused and the Democrats supported the implementation of direct regional elections by offering ten options for improvement.

Resurfacing

Under the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto, the issue of regional head elections through the DPRD has resurfaced. In fact, the proposal was offered directly by Prabowo on several occasions. At the Golkar party's anniversary, for example, Prabowo explicitly stated that regional head elections through the DPRD were more efficient and cheaper without regard to the constitutional…