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108 J.L. Pol'y & Globalization 22 (2021)
Analysis of Regional Election amidst Covid-19 Pandemic in Semarang City

handle is hein.journals/jawpglob108 and id is 23 raw text is: Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization www.iiske.ore ISSN 2224-3240 (Paper) ISSN 2224-3259 (Online) Vol.108, 2021 IIsT Analysis of Regional Election Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic in Semarang City Wahyu Widodo* Sapto Budoyo Toebagus Galang Windi Pratama Faculty of Law, Universitas PGRI Semarang, Indonesia Abstract This article provides an analysis on whether a Regional election when there is only one pair of the candidate to select during pandemic Covid-19 is needed or not using a juridical empirical with analytical descriptive research specifications where the results of the data obtained in the regional election held in Semarang City using Netnography supported with relevant literature to then analyzed using triangulation data process where the result shows that even though the Regional Election shows that there is no significant increase in the patients, it should be raised as a concern on the need to not conduct the election in pandemic especially if there is only one pair to select as the government are supposed to hold people's safety over everything. Therefore the law number 7 of the year 2017 need to be reconstructed especially in Article 431 and 432 by adding a new clause in case of a pandemic or disaster, the regional election can be decided by the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD). Keywords: Regional Election, Pandemic Prevention, Law Reconstruction. DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/108-03 Publication date: April 30th 2021 1. Introduction Covid-19 is one of the Corona Virus Variants found in Wuhan in 2019 and in 2020 it has spread throughout the world. Indonesia as a country that has a large population is also not exempted from this pandemic as by seeing the recorded number of Covid-19 cases that are reaching to nearly 1 million with the death toll reaching 23 thousand as of February 2021. The high number of Covid-19 victims is a threat to political contestation which is always a big event held in a democratic country like Indonesia, namely the General Election or in this case the General Election which is held simultaneously based on KPU Regulation (PKPU) number 5 of 2020. Regarding the third amendment to PKPU number 13 2019 regarding the stages, programs, and schedule for the 2020 Regional Head Election which was held on December 9, 2020 (Umum, 2020). Even though the government, represented by the General Election Commission (KPU), is quite optimistic in preparing for this contest such as providing Sanitizers, masks, and Face Shields, the implementation of this simultaneous post-conflict local election, according to the author, has the potential to increase the number of Covid-19 infections in Indonesia because the Semarang City is the capital of the province of Central Java and also city with a density of over 4.780 people per Square Kilometre(Semarang, 2020). This shone a question as one of the duty of the nation is to protect its citizen, however, the current law that is the law No.7 of the year 2017 regarding general election, specifically, article 71 and 72 specifically states that in case if there is a disaster, then the election can be postponed. The Covid-19 Pandemic, as stated clearly in President's Decision (Keppres) No. 12 of The Year 2020 as a non-nature disaster. Meaning that the regional election which was scheduled to be held on 9th December 2020 can be postponed, however, this law has many holes as there is no specific clause that shows what kind of disaster that can be postponed and to how long will it be. This matter is urgently needed to be studied further as people's safety is at risk of contracting the disease on pe hand, but on the other hand the election, which was planned years before need to be held to provide a sense of democratic enforcement for the people(Landman & Splendore, 2020). However, other problem that rise in relation to this problem is the fact that there is 25 region that held a regional head election in 2020 which presented only a single-pair. This case spark the attention of the researcher concerning whether a regional head election in pandemic where there is only one pair to choose should be held in fear of discarding the concept of regional head election may injure (James & Alihodzic, 2020) the democratic values upheld in a democratic Nation like Indonesia. 2. Materials and Methods Based on the foregoing, the main issues to be examined in this study are to find out if it is necessary to conduct Regional election when there is only one pair of candidate to select during pandemic. The research method used in this research is juridical empirical with analytical descriptive research specifications where the results of the data obtained in the regional election held in Semarang City supported with relevant literature in order to obtain the expected result. 22

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