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THE DYNAMICS AND ROLES OF DPR-RI IN IMPROVING THE LIFE OF THE NATION
IN THE REFORMATION ERA (1998-2018)

DPR RI 2014-2019:

DPR IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

The 2014 election was attended by 12 parties. Even so, there were two parties

that did not qualify for the DPR because their votes were less than 3.5 percent,
namely the Crescent Star Party (PBB) and the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party

(PKPI). Meanwhile, 10 other parties passed the KPU’s verification.

THE 2014 Legislative Elections were held on 9 April 2014, and the 2014
Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections were held on 9 July 2014. The
2014 Legislative Elections succeeded in increasing voter turnout which
reached 75.11 percent, exceeding the 2009 election participation rate of
70. 9 percent.

Meanwhile, the legal umbrella for the 2014 Presidential Election was Law
No. 42/2007 concerning the General Election of the President and Vice
President. The new thing about this law was that pairs of presidential and
vice president candidates must have the support of at least 20 percent of
the seats in the DPR. This number could be from one party or a combina-
tion of several parties. Another requirement for the presidential and vice
president candidate pairs was to obtain 25 percent of the national valid
vote in the legislative election in the same year.

The 2014 election for the legislature practically went smoothly, although
there were one or two shortcomings here and there. However, this was
not the case with the presidential election. In this presidential election,
there were two presidential and vice president candidates, namely the
Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa pair and the Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla
pair. The pair of Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla later became the winners
and were elected as President and Vice President of the Republic of In-
donesia for the 2014-2019 period.

This was the era of the general election that was marked by a battle
for public communication strategies through social media, both by the
winning team of each pair of candidates and by their supporters. The

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