Legal and Political Consequences of Threshold Application in The General Election System in Indonesia Erga Yuhandra 1 , Haris Budiman 2 , Suwari Akhmaddhian 3 Faculty of Law, University of Kuningan, Indonesia 123 {erga.yuhandra@uniku.ac.id} Abstract. General election is a mechanism of orderly circulation of power within a country. In a representative democracy system, the circulation of power is determined by elections. General elections are a concrete answer to people's participation in determining leaders and representatives in state institutions and are a symbol of people's sovereignty in a democratic system. It is feared that there is a threshold in the general election system in Indonesia that can reduce the level of democracy from the freedom to choose the best leader, besides that the existence of a threshold can reduce people's political aspirations. The purpose of this research is to find out and examine the legal and political consequences of the implementation of the threshold system in general elections in Indonesia. The research method used in this research is the normative juridical approach or also known as doctrinal law research or library research. In written legal normative legal research, it is studied from various aspects such as aspects of theory, philosophy, comparison, structure / composition, consistency, general explanation and explanation of each article, and the binding strength of a law and the language used is legal language. The use of doctrinal legal research is to find out whether and how the law regulates a matter and how the rule of law is applied Keywords: Law; Politics; Democracy; General Election. 1 Introduction Democracy is a system that is able to rise phenomenally after being lost for thousands of years. There is almost no system that can do this, especially since the rise of democracy has become a big current sweeping the world so that it is now considered a popular system and is considered the best in regulating the relationship between the people and the rulers [1]. Almost no government system is willing to accept the label undemocratic, so there is almost no government system that does not run general elections. For a number of countries that implement or claim to be democratic countries (sovereignty of the people), elections are considered as a symbol as well as the main measure of democracy. That is, the implementation and results of the general elections are a reflection of the atmosphere of openness and application of the basic values of democracy, in addition to the need for freedom of opinion and association which are considered reflections of the opinions of citizens [2]. General elections are an important instrument in any democratic country that adheres to a representative system, elections are a tool that functions to filter out politicians who will represent and bring people's voices in representative institutions. So, for those who are elected are considered as people or groups who have the ability or obligation to speak and act on UNISET 2020, December 12, Kuningan, Indonesia Copyright © 2021 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.12-12-2020.2305137