The 2023 MPR Annual Session Will Last 2 Days

JAKARTA - MPR Chairman Bambang Soesatyo said the 2023 MPR Annual Session is planned to be held separately and not be used as a series with the Joint Session of the DPR and DPD so that it takes place on two different days on 15-16 August 2023.

Bamsoet explained that on August 15, 2023, the 2023 MPR RI Annual Session was scheduled to submit reports on the performance of state institutions to the public, such as the DPR, BPK, MA, MK, and KY.

"Leaders of high state institutions to directly convey their performance to the public or to the people through the MPR session on the 15th (August). So we will start the annual session in two days," said Bamsoet, his nickname, after the MPR Leadership Consultation Meeting with the DPD leadership at the parliament complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, July 10.

After the 2023 MPR Annual Session, he continued, on August 16 it will be continued with the implementation of the Joint Session of the DPR RI and DPD RI to hear the Presidential State Speech in the context of the 78th Anniversary.

"On the 16th (August) we will hear the presidential report as well as the state speech, plus the trial with the DPR and DPD," he said.

Bamsoet said the format for holding the MPR RI Annual Session which was separated for two days was different from the implementation of the MPR RI Annual Session when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

"The implementation of the annual trial in a different format from yesterday's COVID-19, we will return it to the beginning," he said.

Bamsoet said that the leaders of the MPR and DPD also agreed to finalize the initiative so that the main tasks and functions of the MPR, DPR, and DPD in the future can be regulated in separate laws so that they are no longer included in Law Number 17 of 2014 concerning the MPR, DPR, DPD, and DPRD (MD3).

"So the MPR Bill has been prepared, the DPD Bill has been prepared, I have heard that the DPR Bill has also been prepared. It remains only to carry out changes to the MD3 Law," he said.