2020 Indonesian local elections


Local elections is planned to be held in Indonesia on 9 December 2020. Voters in the elections will elect 9 governors, 224 regents, and 37 mayors across the country. All the elections would be held on the same day, and over 100 million people are expected to be eligible to vote.

Background

Simultaneous local elections was first held in Indonesia in 2015. The leadup to the 2020 elections saw several regulations being issued by the General Elections Commission barring certain candidates from running, from adulterers and politicians who had been charged with corruption.

Schedule

KPU released a schedule for the election in June 2019. Registration for the candidates would be held between 28 and 30 April 2020, with a campaign period lasting between June and September. The voting itself was initially planned for 23 September 2020. In October 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs estimated that the election will require an expenditure of Rp 15.3 trillion, around double the budget for the 2015 local elections. In May 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, President Joko Widodo issued a regulation postponing the election to December 2020, with further postponement being possible if the pandemic had not subsided by then.
The new schedule for the elections was released in June, the new election date becoming 9 December 2020 and the campaigning period being set between 26 September and 5 December 2020.

Elections

Gubernatorial

Mayoral

Regency