Indonesia's Presidential Election Day 2014

Indonesia's Presidential Election Day 2014
Indonesia's Presidential Election Day 2014 - Now it was time for all Indonesian people choose the president to determine over the next 5 years 2014 through 2019.

The 3rd Indonesian presidential election will be held on 9 July 2014. The term will last for five-years. This election has two candidates : Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa are running against Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla.

Incumbent president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term in office.

According to the 2008 election law, only parties or coalitions controlling 20% of DPR seats or winning 25% of the popular votes in the 2014 parliamentary elections are eligible to nominate a candidate. This law was challenged in the Constitutional Court but in late January 2014 the Court ruled that the requirement would stand for this election.

No one party reached the threshold alone in the 2014 legislative elections, as a result two coalitions were formed. The coalition supporting Prabowo/Hatta includes Gerindra, PPP, PKS, Golkar, PAN, and Demokrat. The coalition supporting Jokowi/JK includes PDI-P, PKB, NasDem and Hanura.

Voting System

Indonesia is working towards e-voting in the hope of implementing the new system in the 2014 general elections. The basis of the e-voting system is electronic identity cards (e-KTP) which are expected to be ready by 2012 nation-wide, but have been tried in six districts/cities, namely Padang (West Sumatra), Denpasar (Bali), Jembrana (Bali), Yogyakarta (Java), Cilegon (West Java) and Makassar (South Sulawesi).

Reference : en.wikipedia.org