ELECTION DYNAMICS IN INDONESIA THE FIRST ELECTION ERA OF 1955

Abstract

General elections are a form of democracy organized by the government for the benefit of the people. With the general election, the people participate in providing their political aspirations which are intended to elect their representatives in the government. The general election is the right step taken by the government to implement the principle of people's sovereignty which has been stated in the provisional constitution. In order to perfect the provisional constitution and to elect representatives to sit in Parliament, the Indonesian government held the first general election in 1955. The type of research used in this research is classified as library research. namely research in which data is processed and extracted from various books, newspapers, magazines and several articles that are related to this research. Then the approach used is a historical approach (historical research). While the method used in the research is a descriptive qualitative research method. The results of the research show that Liberal Democracy in Indonesia was expected from 1950 to 1959, in practice the government system adheres to a parliamentary system. This democracy has a very strong characteristic regarding the multi-party system that is adopted, but there is no political party that has an absolute majority. In this system, the age of the cabinet in each government is very short, causing frequent cabinet changes. At this time the second major achievement after the proclamation was successfully obtained was the achievement of the General Election in 1955 whose participants came from various parties that existed at that time in Indonesia. This election was successfully carried out in two stages, namely the first stage on September 29, 1955 holding the election for the DPR and on December 15, 1955 holding the election for Members of the Constituent Assembly. The top four winners of the 1955 election included: PNI, Masyumi, NU and PKI.Pemilihan umum merupakan salah satu bentuk demokrasi yang diselenggarakan oleh pemerintah untuk ...