Gerindra Can Only Smile Responding To The Constitutional Court's Letter Rights Proposed By Masinton PDIP

Deputy Chairperson of the Gerindra Party, Habiburokhman (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Gerindra faction member Habiburokhman could only smile in response to the proposed right of inquiry against the Constitutional Court (MK) submitted by a member of the PDIP faction, Masinton Pasaribu.

The proposal for this right of inquiry relates to the Constitutional Court's decision to pass the presidential candidate's age limit of at least 40 years unless he has served even as regional head. "Yes, I think we smile, where do you know, when the Constitutional Court's decision is made an object of the right to inquiry, right?," said Habiburokhman at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, November 1. The member of Commission III of the DPR also admitted that he was not interested in the right to inquiry. According to him, the application for the right of inquiry to the Constitutional Court is beyond common sense.

"Anyway, I'm not interested because this is too degrading for our common sense as a citizen who understands the law, isn't it? For example, if you played the ball, you lost, you were asked to appeal to the court, how come it's like that," he said. According to the Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives' Honorary Court (MKD), judicial institutions such as the Constitutional Court cannot be proposed. The right of inquiry, he said, applies to supervising the executive, aka the government. "In the past, the right of inquiry is how we investigate government policies, government, government, that emphasis. The right of inquiry is in the context of the relationship between supervisors and those supervised by the executive government," Habiburokhman explained. "Judicatively, if in the trias of politics, other institutions, it can't be an object of the right of inquiry," he added. The Gerindra Party spokesman was surprised if someone with a political background spoke about the right of inquiry to the Constitutional Court. He appealed to the right of inquiry not to be politicized so as to 'ractify' the Indonesian legal system.

"So if there are people who apply for the right of inquiry, let alone the political background, do we know, don't we? Yes, go ahead, he argues to be satisfied with his heart. But in my opinion, this makes us confused, right," said Habiburokhman. "Behind common sense, because political matters, we are really concerned too. We can be politicians who have political attitudes, have their own political idealism, they are different from each other, but don't rape the legal system, not on behalf of politics, what is the basis in the law, we ignore it," he added.