Jokowi Calls The Job Creation Law Makes Extortion Disappear

President Jokowi (DOK. Setkab)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has revealed a number of reasons for the importance of the Omnibus Law on Job Creation. One of them is to eliminate the practice of extortion or extortion that often occurs due to the lengthy bureaucracy of business-related licensing.

With the disappearance of extortion, Jokowi called the Job Creation Law to support the government's efforts to prevent and eradicate corruption.

"This Job Creation Law supports preventive efforts to support efforts to prevent and eradicate corruption," Jokowi said in a video statement uploaded on the YouTube account of the Presidential Secretariat, Friday, October 9.

As for the way the Job Creation Law eliminates extortion, said Jokowi, because this law is to cut, simplify, and integrate systems related to licensing electronically.

"Then the illegal levies can be eliminated," he said.

In addition, there are other reasons why the government made the Job Creation Law, namely to provide job opportunities for job seekers and unemployed people and to make it easier for people, especially micro and small entrepreneurs, to open new businesses.

"Overlapping regulations and complicated procedures were trimmed. Business licensing for MSMEs is no longer needed. It's just registration, it's very simple," he said.

"The formation of a PT is also made easier, there is no longer a minimum capital limitation. The formation of a cooperative is also made easier, only nine people in number," he added.

Previously, the DPR approved the ratification of the Work Creation Omnibus Law Bill (RUU). Approval was taken at the Plenary Meeting for the Closing of Session Period I of the 2020-2021 Session Year at the Parliament Building, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, October 5, chaired by Deputy Speaker of the DPR Azis Syamsudin.

Present at the plenary meeting were the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto, Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziah, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani, Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian, and Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly.

After listening to the views of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto, the DPR then decided to knock on the bill despite opposition from the Democrats and the Prosperous Justice Party.

The ratification of the Job Creation Law was met with criticism from many parties, especially laborers and including a number of civil society coalitions. They held demonstrations in various provinces.