Improvement of the Presidential System in Concurrent Elections

Abstract

The advantages of holding the elections for the people's representatives and the president which are held simultaneously, among others, reduce the cost of holding an unmitigated election to reach tens of trillions. In addition, simultaneous elections can also minimize costly politics, such as campaigning to money politics. Simultaneous elections can also directly avoid the abuse of power of officials during their term of office or what is called the politicization of the bureaucracy, is an effort to avoid corruption, maintain national stability and streamline the work of the Government. Meanwhile, the results of this study indicate that the Concurrent Election can be an effort to reform the Presidential system implemented in post-reform Indonesia