The Role of the General Election Supervisory Body of Medan City in Organizing the 2019 Simultaneous Elections

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The existence of General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) in the current democratic system is absolutely necessary to supervise every process and stage of the election and prevent and take action against those who violate election provisions. In-Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Election Organizers, it is stated that the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) is an election management agency tasked with overseeing the implementation of elections throughout the territory of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. This task is in accordance with the words of the Prophet Muhammad, who emphasized that if you find a violation, change it according to your ability and form of responsibility. The General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) has the responsibility of resolving any election violations that occur. This study aims to find out: 1) The forms of violations that occurred during the 2019 simultaneous elections in Medan City. 2) the mechanism for resolving violations carried out by the Medan City General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) to holding the 2019 simultaneous elections. 3) Factors support and impede the Medan City General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) from holding simultaneous elections in 2019. This type of research is qualitative field research. The political science approach in this research uses a new institutionalism approach. A new institutionalism approach explains how the institution's organization is, the responsibilities of each role, and how roles and institutions interact. The results of the study, namely: 1) The alleged election violations in Medan City include violations of the procedures, procedures or mechanisms related to the administration of election implementation and election crimes. 2) General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) is an institution that has the authority to receive, examine and so on the implementation of the election so that it runs according to the existing rules. 3) The supporting factors for Medan City General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) in organizing elections are related to Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) authority, community involvement, and the use of technology. In contrast, the inhibiting factors faced by General Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) are the overlapping authority between institutions that handle election-related cases, limited time in handling election disputes, low community participation, quantity and quality of human resources in supervising the implementation of elections, as well as facilities and infrastructure.

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