Abstract:
The General Election Commission is a state institution that organizes General
Elections in Indonesia. It consists of commissioners who have competence in their field of
work. The selection of commissioners as public officials is based on the results of the
selection committee selection which is then recommended to the President, for further
suitability testing at Commission II of the Republic of Indonesia DPR. Commissioners who
pass the suitability test will then be appointed by the President for a term of five years. As
public officials, KPU commissioners are those who are believed to have very good
personalities and have never been involved in any legal violations. They work based on
applicable laws and the KPU code of ethics. The KPU commissioners will elect one of them
to be appointed as Chairman of the KPU. The General Election Commission itself is
headquartered in Jakarta. This research is normative juridical descriptive, a research method
that seeks to describe and interpret the object of research according to what it is, aiming to
provide data resulting from researching a situation or existing facts which will then be
described clearly so that it can be accepted and understood as to the basis for imposition. the
legal rules that apply to the Chairman of the KPU who commits a violation of the law, the
legal consequences of the sexual harassment he commits and the form of accountability of the
Chairman of the KPU for violations of the law both ethically and regarding the application of
criminal law. The results of the research in this paper found that the Chairman of the KPU,
based on the facts of the code of ethics trial held by the DKPP, was legally and clearly proven
to have violated the KPU code of ethics as Chairman of the KPU for his actions of sexually
harassing a female subordinate who served on the Overseas Election Committee in The
Hague. , Dutch. Confirming all acts of sexual harassment as stated in the DKPP decision
Number 90/PKE-DKPP/V/2024, dated 3 July 2024. With responsibility, he was permanently
dismissed as Chairman of the Indonesian KPU.
