Optimizing the role of political party courts in resolving internal political party disputes

The purpose of this study is to provide suggestions for new legal concepts, to optimize the role of the Political Party Court, using normative juridical law research methods and approaches to laws, cases, and comparative law approaches. The mechanism for resolving internal disputes within political parties is regulated in Article 32 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 2 of 2011 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 2 of 2008 about Political Parties (Political Parties Law), which states that it can be done through the Court of Political Parties. Furthermore, Article 33 of the UUPP can submit the settlement mechanism through a lawsuit to the District Court and the Supreme Court. The legal fact is that from several internal political party dispute cases, the settlement process is not only done through these two methods. However, someone suddenly created a rival Extraordinary Congress, seeking legal tendencies at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia to file a lawsuit with the State Administrative Court. So it is necessary to have a new legal concept to optimize the role of the Political Party Court and a one-door mechanism for resolving internal disputes of political parties.