Non-Parliament Parties Seek Way into the House

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Non-parliamentary parties have stepped up consolidation efforts amid ongoing deliberations over revisions to the General Election Law in the House of Representatives (DPR). Grouped under the People’s Sovereignty Movement (GKSR), they are advancing a key proposal: abolishing the parliamentary threshold.

That issue was among those discussed at a meeting at the GKSR joint secretariat in Pegangsaan, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. “We want all parties to have equal opportunity to win seats in the House,” GKSR working committee member Said Salahuddin told Tempo on Wednesday, April 22.

Said, who serves as Deputy Chair of the Labor Party, said eight parties within the GKSR agreed to urge lawmakers to reduce the threshold to zero or at most 1 percent. The parties are the People’s Conscience (Hanura) Party, the Labor Party, the Crescent Star Party (PBB), the Berkarya Party, the Nusantara Awakening Party (PKN), the Ummat Party, the United Development Party (PPP), and the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI).

Said stated that GKSR members will submit a proposal to House Commission II, which oversees governance and elections. He and his colleagues are also urging lawmakers to involve non-parliamentary parties in discussions on revising the Election Law, particularly on the parliamentary threshold.

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