Jakarta, Legal Literacy - The 2024 General Election (Pemilu) process has now entered the stage of national vote counting throughout Indonesia. The final results of the voting held on February 14, 2024, will determine whether the 2024 Presidential Election will take place in one or two rounds.

As is known, the 2024 Presidential Election was contested by three pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidates, namely Anies Baswedan – Muhaimin Iskandar, Prabowo Subianto – Gibran Rakabuming Raka, and Ganjar Pranowo – Mahfud MD.

Based on the quick count results from the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI), the Prabowo-Gibran pair managed to excel with a total vote acquisition of 57.46 percent, while Anies-Muhaimin won 25.30 percent of the vote and Ganjar-Mahfud only 17.23 percent. This result raises the question of whether there is still a possibility of a second round in the 2024 Presidential Election.

According to the Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy & Strategic (Indostrategic), Ahmad Khoirul Umam, the acquisition of figures from the quick count shows that the 2024 Presidential Election is likely to take place in only one round. Although the quick count results are not official, based on the acquisition of votes, Prabowo-Gibran will most likely be announced as the winner of the 2024 Presidential Election.

Umam also noted that in the previous two Presidential Elections, namely the 2014 and 2019 Presidential Elections, the winning figures of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates were below the previous survey results. However, in the 2024 Presidential Election, the winning figures of the Prabowo-Gibran pair were even higher than the survey results from various institutions.

The condition for a second round in the 2024 Presidential Election is based on Article 6A paragraph (3) The Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia (UUD) of 1945, which stipulates that the determination of the president and vice president requires more than 50 percent of the total votes, with at least 20 percent of the votes in each province spread over more than half the number of provinces in Indonesia.

Article 416 paragraph (2) of the Election Law also states that if no pair of presidential and vice-presidential candidates manages to win more than 50 percent of the total votes, with a minimum of 20 percent of the votes in each province in more than half of the total provinces in Indonesia, a second round of elections will be held.

In the scenario of the second round of the 2024 Presidential Election, voter data will be updated and voter lists will be compiled from March 22, 2024 to April 25, 2024. The election campaign period will last from Sunday, June 2, 2024 to Saturday, June 22, 2024, with a cooling-off period starting from Sunday, June 23, 2024 to Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Voting will be held on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, followed by vote counting from Wednesday, June 26, 2024 to Thursday, June 27, 2024, as well as recapitulation of vote counting results from Thursday, June 27, 2024 to Saturday, July 20, 2024.