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The effectiveness of regulations regarding elections that are able to provide fair and appropriate sanctions in any election violations that have been committed based on the applicable legal system can determine the success of organizing transparent and accountable elections. Lawrence M. Friedman explains the elements of the legal system consist of legal structure, legal substance, and legal culture. This research is a normative legal research that uses a conceptual research approach using primary legal materials, secondary legal materials, and non-legal materials. The result of this research is that the legal structure related to general elections still has obstacles related to the efforts to process the handling of alleged election criminal violations. In terms of legal substance, Law Number 7 Year 2017 needs to explain in more detail about election crimes and the qualifications of actions taken are offenses or crimes. As well as in terms of legal culture, both election organizers, election participants and the public as voters have not fully realized the nature or purpose of general elections. So that law enforcement in general elections based on Law Number 17 of 2017 concerning General Elections has not been effective based on a review of the legal system according to Lawrence M. Friedman.

The development of the government system in Indonesia has resulted in significant changes in the form of granting autonomy to the regions. Regional autonomy includes the granting of authority to regions to regulate local issues in accordance with the needs and characteristics of the region. Special autonomy is a variation of the concept of regional autonomy that gives special authority and responsibility to regions with certain characteristics. The purpose of this research is to analyze the way the concept and implementation of special autonomy is interpreted in the situation of regional autonomy. This research uses a normative legal approach method to examine relevant legal regulations and literature related to this topic. The results show that special autonomy is an important step in building governance that is responsive to local needs. While recognizing the privileges of regions with special characteristics, special autonomy must still maintain the unity of the state and respect the values of diversity. The implementation of special autonomy has had a positive impact on regional empowerment, but needs to be improved to remain in line with national goals and human rights. The interaction between the central and local governments in the context of special autonomy also needs to be maintained and strengthened to achieve sustainable and inclusive development throughout Indonesia.