Pemilu Singapura 2025

Pada tanggal 3 Mei 2025, Singapura menyelenggarakan pemilu untuk ke-19 kalinya sejak 1948. Pemilu kali ini juga merupakan pemilu pertama di era Presiden Tharman Shanmugaratman dan PM Lawrence Wong.

Terdapat 11 partai politik yang bertanding dalam pemilu kali ini. Dua di antaranya merupakan partai baru, yakni Parti Bersatu Singapura (SUP) yang didirikan tahun 1950 dan Perikatan Rakyat bagi Pembaharuan (PAR) yang berdiri tahun 2023, hasil gabungan tiga partai lama (PV, RP, dan DPP).

Total caleg mencapai 211 orang, termasuk dua orang caleg independen. Masa kampanyenya berlangsung selama sembilan hari, dari 23 April hingga 1 Mei 2025.

Seperti yang sudah diprediksi, Parti Tindakan Rakyat (PAP) kembali memenangkan pemilu dengan perolehan supermayoritas kursi.

Lawrence Wong dilantik kembali untuk masa jabatan kedua pada 23 Mei 2025 oleh Presiden Tharman Shanmugaratman di kompleks Istana Singapura. Pelantikan PM Lawrence Wong dilakukan bersamaan dengan pelantikan para anggota kabinetnya yang juga dilantik oleh presiden.

Anggota Parlemen hasil pemilu 2025 dijadwalkan akan dilantik sekaligus menggelar sidang perdananya pada 5 September 2025.

Pilihan Raya Umum Singapura 2015

Tanggal 12 September 2015 kemarin, Singapura kembali menggelar Pilihan Raya Umum untuk memilih anggota-anggota Parlimen Singapura. Proses pemilu kali ini dimulai dengan diumumkannya perubahan batas-batas wilayah konstituensi pada 24 Juli 2015. Secara umum jumlah konstituensi bertambah dua yang berarti pula jumlah kursi di parlimen juga bertambah dua. Kemudian, pada 25 Agustus 2015, Parlimen Singapura resmi dibubarkan oleh Presiden Tony Tan Keng Yam. Kemudian ditetapkan 1 September 2015 sebagai hari pendaftaran calon dan pemilihan diselenggarakan pada 12 September 2015 dengan masa kampanye selama sepuluh hari dan satu hari masa tenang..

Pilihan Raya kali ini mencatat beberapa hal unik, antara lain:

• Untuk pertama kalinya sejak merdeka, seluruh daerah pemilihan dipertandingkan, yang berarti tidak ada calon tunggal yang menang tanpa bertanding.
• Untuk pertama kalinya sejak 1988, konstituensi Tanjong Pagar dipertandingkan. Sebelumnya, partai oposisi enggan berkompetisi di daerah ini dikarenakan kuatnya sosok Lee Kuan Yew, perdana menteri pertama Singapura yang mewakili wilayah ini.
• Karena wafatnya Lee Kuan Yew dua bulan sebelumnya, Pilihan Raya kali ini juga untuk pertama kalinya sejak merdeka tanpa keikutsertaan Lee Kuan Yew.
• Tahun 2015 ini, konstituensi Tanjong Pagar ditantang oleh Tan Jee Say dari Parti Warga Diutamakan.
• Tan Jee Say merupakan mantan calon presiden pada Pilihan Raya Presiden Singapura 2011 lalu. Hal ini juga menjadikannya mantan capres pertama yang berkompetisi lagi sebagai caleg.
• Perdana Menteri Lee Hsien Loong yang mewakili wilayah Ang Mo Kio ditantang oleh Roy Ngerng dari Parti Reform. Roy Ngerng merupakan seorang aktivis dan blogger yang sering mengkritik kebijakan pemerintah. Akibatnya, ia dituntut oleh PM Lee pada 2014 lalu dengan tuduhan fitnah dan dijatuhi hukuman denda S$29.000 (atau setara Rp290 juta).
• Roy Ngerng sendiri juga mencatat sejarah sebagai politikus pertama di Singapura yang secara terbuka mengakui dirinya adalah homoseksual.
• Sebanyak sembilan partai politik berpartisipasi, menjadikannya pemilu dengan jumlah partai terbanyak sejak Pilihan Raya Umum 1984 yang juga diikuti sembilan partai.

Hasil Pilihan Raya Umum bisa dikatakan antara mengejutkan dan tidak. Tidak mengejutkan karena Parti Tindakan Rakyat (PAP) kembali memenangkan pemilu dan menguasai mayoritas kursi, sama seperti tahun-tahun sebelumnya. Namun juga mengejutkan karena di balik meluasnya dukungan dan pengaruh partai-partai oposisi, serta besarnya animo masyarakat menghadiri kampanye yang diadakan oposisi, persentase perolehan suara partai-partai oposisi justru menurun dibandingkan pemilu sebelumnya.

Keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum Singapura 2015

Dengan hasil Pilihan Raya, dipastikan Lee Hsien Loong akan menjabat Perdana Menteri untuk periode keempat. Dengan berbekal naiknya kepercayaan rakyat juga, pemerintahannya juga akan semakin mantap menjalankan program-program yang dicanangkan tanpa halangan yang berarti.

Meskipun bukan orang Singapura, saya melihat kualitas pemilu di Singapura sangat baik dan sudah sepatutnya dijadikan bahan pembelajaran bagi penyelenggaraan pemilu serta bagi para politikus di Indonesia. Beberapa hal yang membedakan pemilu di Singapura dengan Indonesia, selain sistem pemilunya, antara lain:

• Caleg-caleg separtai berkampanye secara bersama-sama dan beriklan sebagai satu tim, tidak seperti di Indonesia yang caleg sesama partai pun saling bersaingan.
• Meskipun kecewa, pihak yang kalah bersedia menerima dan mengakui kekalahannya, bahkan mengintrospeksi diri, melihat apa yang menyebabkan dirinya kurang dipercayai rakyat, tidak seperti di Indonesia yang sering berujung di meja pengadilan karena menyalahkan calon menang dengan berbagai tuduhan, hingga menyalahkan KPU.
• Hanya dalam satu hari, hasil resmi pemilu sudah diumumkan. Di Indonesia, hasil pemilu untuk tingkat kelurahan saja harus menunggu berhari-hari, apalagi harus menunggu sampai tingkat provinsi atau nasional.
• Dalam kampanye, meskipun saling menyerang, yang diserang dan difokuskan adalah program yang ditawarkan partai atau calon, bukan pribadi dan latar belakang calon. Di Indonesia, pribadi dan latar belakang calon seringkali dijadikan bahan gunjingan, misalnya sukunya, agamanya, pernikahannya, keluarganya, kekayaannya, dan sebagainya, bukan visi, misi, dan program yang ditawarkan.

Pada akhirnya, saya ucapkan selamat kepada Parti Tindakan Rakyat, semoga di bawah kepemimpinan Lee Hsien Loong, sukses menjalankan janji kampanyenya serta program-program yang dicanangkan, bersama rakyat, untuk rakyat, dan demi Singapura.

Pidato Pelantikan Presiden Singapura 2011

Speech by President Tony Tan Keng Yam

At the Swearing-in Ceremony of the Seventh President of Singapore

At Istana on 1 September 2011

Dr. Tony Tan Keng Yam
7th President of Singapore

Prime Minister,

Chief Justice,

Distinguished Guests,

Ladies and Gentlements,

I am humbled to be given the opportunity to represent our nation, and I am deeply honoured.

The Office of the President is the highest in our land. This will be my most challenging appointment in three decades of public service. I am acutely aware of the heavy responsibilities and expectations before me. 

I thank all Singaporeans for their support and their trust. I pledge that I will do my very best over the next six years to serve Singapore to the best of my ability.

The President is our Head of State and has important ceremonial functions. Uniquely, Singapore’s President also exercises vital custodial responsibilities in protecting our financial reserves, and the integrity of our public service.

I will wield this “second key” with utmost care. Our reserves have been painstakingly built up over decades, and should not be compromised.

The world economy remains troubled. Europe, the United States and Japan are unable to grow and are struggling to bring their finances into balance. Their difficulties will affect the global economy, including us in Singapore. We should be prepared for challenging times ahead.

In contrast to the countries facing continuous budget deficits and debt crises, Singapore has built up its savings through prudence. Our government must continue to live within its means, and only draw on past reserves in an exceptional crisis – like the one we faced in 2008. I therefore welcome the Prime Minister’s assurance that the Government will continue to be responsible with our finances. I will play my role to safeguard our reserves, so that they can continue to give us confidence in tough times.

I will also maintain constant vigilance over key public service appointments. I will scrutinise the candidates proposed for these appointments, to ensure that they are persons of integrity and excellence, each driven by the desire to serve Singapore. I will exercise these powers with an independent mind, always putting Singaporeans first.

Our President is not a centre of political power. The office is non-partisan. But our President can be a resource. And our President can be a symbol.

As a resource, our President can draw on past expertise and present outreach to Singaporeans, to offer counsel to the Government of the day. I will offer the Prime Minister my confidential advice on Government policies. I believe that my years in Parliament, as a Cabinet Minister and in the private sector will offer a useful perspective. I aim to forge a constructive relationship with the Prime Minister and his ministers during my term in office. I will seek to work not only with the Government, but also with civil society and community groups to advance the interests of all Singaporeans, whatever their political persuasions.

As a symbol, our President can strive to embody all that is good in Singapore and Singaporeans. I will engage with Singaporeans from all ages, walks of life, and all viewpoints, to understand their interests and concerns. I will strive to strengthen our common bonds and our core values that underpin our society, regardless of race, language, or religion.

Whatever your political views, whatever your station in life, I will strive to the best of my abilities to represent you.

Singapore remains a work in progress. That is true literally, as we engage in land reclamation and redevelopment of our island nation. But it is also a metaphor for the relentless reinvention we have had to pursue in order to stay above water. As an island with no natural resources, we have had to rely on our ideas and our efforts to build Singapore. Now that the world moves faster than ever, we need to keep pace, cultivating creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit. This is true in business, it is true in our political institutions, but it is also true in the daily lives of many Singaporeans.

During my term of office, I hope to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in all Singaporeans. Few of us may actually start new businesses or ventures. But all of us can identify needs or gaps, tinker with new ideas, and create our own opportunities. We can all benefit from such creativity and energy.

We in Singapore are recognised for our industry, our respect for law, and the integrity of our institutions. We must keep this up. Such discipline and pragmatism has served Singapore well, driving our country’s economic growth. With prosperity, we have been able to provide for our families at a level unmatched in the region.  Singapore has done well since Independence. But our progress cannot be measured only by our ranking on international tables or the success of our highest flyers. As a society, we must judge ourselves also by how we care for those who are disadvantaged or in need.

I am deeply aware of the challenges faced by Singaporeans who struggle to make ends meet, or feel that they are being left behind. As President, I will work with the Government, community groups, and the entire nation to make Singapore a more caring and gracious society.

Singapore is at an important juncture. At independence 46 years ago, we were bound together by the common challenge of survival. Many wrote us off, but with determination and cohesion, we overcame those obstacles and did well.

Today, new challenges have emerged. The world has reached the end of a 25-year “long boom”, where the advanced countries grew at a healthy rate and inflation was low. As a small, open country, Singapore will face shocks from time to time, which can disrupt our economy and jobs.

As we did in 1965, we need to come together as one people to face our challenges with confidence and build our future together.

The recent Presidential election was one of the largest democratic exercises in our nation’s history. 2.15 million Singaporeans cast their votes, to choose one President from four candidates. Following the Presidential Election and the General Election in May this year, there has been much talk of the need for unity. We must now move forward together as one people and one nation. This is vital for our stability and prosperity.

To the Prime Minister, I offer my thanks for your encouragement and your confidence, and I look forward to working with you.

To my predecessors – President Ong and President Nathan – I thank them for their service to Singapore and for their work in helping define this evolving institution.

To the people of Singapore: I am deeply honoured to be your seventh President, and the third elected to that office. I am humbled by the tasks that have been given to me. I will apply myself to these tasks with all my ability, with all my energy, and with all my heart. With your support, I will strive to be a President of whom you will all be proud.

Thank you.

Source: istana.gov.sg