IMPLIKASI PUTUSAN MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI NOMOR 24/PUU/XII/2014 TERHADAP EKSISTENSI LEMBAGA SURVEI PEMILU DIKAITKAN DENGAN PARTISIPASI POLITIK

Abstract

This research is about the Analysis of Constitutional Court decision number 24/ PUU-XII / 2014. The decision of the Constitutional Court has had an impact in the revocation of several articles in Law Number 8 Year 2012 regarding General Election of the People’s Legislative Assembly, Regional Representative Council, Regional House of Representatives. Which includes there are regulations concerning the implementation of quick counts in the election and related articles. What is to be discussed in this paper is whether the decision has a good impact on the nature of democracy in Indonesia or make even worse. This question is worth asking because the implementation of rapid calculations by survey agencies can be viewed as a spirit of values and public participation in general in maintaining and developing democracy in Indonesia in the Constituency of Election which their actions have also been guaranteed in the 1945 Constitution. In the juridical aspect of this writing will put the test stone of the 1945 Constitution as the examiner whether some of the revoked Article is indeed worth revoking and can be said to be contradictory to the 1945 Constitution? In post-Reform Democracy Indonesia is in the period of development and improvement that still need a lot of participation in the social community, survey Institution can be considered as the actual form in participatory democracy on the other hand also helps the role of the State in providing political education in Indonesia. Participation is the community’s share or participation in physical development whether it contributes to Mind Power, Nor Money. Therefore, the position and the existence of the survey institution should be preserved and even developed in other forms of participation as long as for the purpose of building Democracy in Indonesia which still needs to be developed.