Electoral or Parliamentary Threshold

Soon, Indonesia will organize an election 2009 for the next president. There is 2 kind of system for this election especially for the party.

1. Electoral Thereshold : A minimal chair that must be got by each party so that they can compete to the next election ( 5 years later ). In Indonesia law ( UUD 1945 ) , section 9 verse (1) UU No.12 of year 2003, there is a statement that say every party in election must get at least 3 % from total of the chair in DPR (centre), 4 % chair from the chair in DPRD in a half province in all of Indonesia , 4 % of chair in regency from a half of the total regency/city in Indonesia.

2. Parliamentary Threshold : at least 2,5 % of chair