POLITIK HUKUM PENGATURAN BATAS USIA MINIMAL REKRUTMEN PETUGAS KELOMPOK PENYELENGGARA PEMUNGUTAN SUARA PADA PASAL 20 AYAT 2 PERATURAN KOMISI PEMILIHAN UMUM REPUBLIK INDONESIA NOMOR 6 TAHUN 2020 TENTANG PELAKSANAAN PEMILIHAN SERENTAK LANJUTAN DALAM KONDISI BENCANA NONALAM CORONA VIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)

Abstract

Democracy is one of the basic principles in the constitution which is manifested in
the form of elections. Where the election is a citizen's human rights. Which is inseparable
from legal politics which is an effort to realize good regulations in accordance with the
conditions and situations at that time, the General Elections Commission formed the lowest
election organizer from the electoral institutional structure, namely the General Election
Commission, abbreviated as KPPS. The requirements to become a member of KPPS in Law
Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections are related to age, which is contained in
Article 72, which is the minimum age of 17 (seventeen) years. However, it is different in the
last Pilkada where the General Election Commission Regulation abbreviated as PKPU
Number 6 of 2020 concerning the implementation of continued simultaneous elections in the
non-natural disaster conditions of the 2019 corona virus dieses was established where in this
regulation there is a Minimum Age Restriction for Officers of the Voting Organizing Group
in article 20 paragraph 2, which is a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of 50 years. The
main purpose of this study is to see the effectiveness of changing the minimum age limit in
recruiting KPPS members to create good elections and based on Good Governance and this
study also conducts a study on determining the minimum age limit. This is the right age to
become a capable KPPS member. work optimally and professionally in general elections.
This type of research is normative juridical research, research conducted based on
legal materials and legislation. The approach taken is a library approach, namely by
studying books and legislation. The types of data used are primary data types, secondary
data sources, namely data sources derived from books and other regulations.
From the results of the study, it can be concluded that legal politics is a policy and an
effort to find out how the review process can produce legal policies that are in accordance
with the needs and sense of justice of the community where in the formation of the General
Election Commission regulation Number 6 of 2020 concerning the implementation of further
simultaneous elections. in conditions of non-natural disasters corona virus disease 2019 is a
form of legal politics in which the Government seeks to be able to carry out and carry out
general elections in this case the election of regional heads by prioritizing the interests and
safety of the community, including election organizers who have a workload in the midst of
the Covid-19 outbreak as well as maintaining the quality of elections in the future. pandemic
by providing a fairly mature minimal age.
Keywords: General Election, KPPS, Minimal Age.