<![CDATA[The existence of political parties in Indonesia requires political recruitment as a democratic and transparent mechanism for selecting prospective leaders, as regulated in Article 29 paragraph (2) of Law Number 2 of 2011 on Political Parties. However, recruitment practices still face challenges due to the absence of a merit system, which may encourage nepotism, transactional politics, and clientelism. This study aims to analyze the regulations on presidential and regional head candidate recruitment under the Political Parties Law and the statutes of eight political parties that obtained more than 10 million votes in the 2024 General Election, while examining their conformity with merit system principles. This research uses a normative legal method with primary legal materials consisting of Law Number 2 of 2011 and party statutes. The results show that all parties implement tiered cadre development, but merit principles have not been consistently applied. PKS explicitly includes integrity, capability, and professionalism criteria, while other parties show varying degrees of internalization. The nomination mechanisms indicate centralized patterns in PDIP, Gerindra, NasDem, and Partai Demokrat, while Golkar and PAN apply more collective approaches. The study recommends reforming party recruitment governance through legal revisions and integrating merit-based selection principles into party statutes.]]>
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