Airlangga Hartarto Denies That The Job Creation Law Is Contrary To The 1945 Constitution

Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Airlangga Hartarto. (Photo: Doc. Coordinating Ministry for the Economy)

JAKARTA - The government denies that Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation contradicts the 1945 Constitution.

"Declaring Law Number 11 Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation does not conflict with the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia," said Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto as President Joko Widodo's proxy (Jokowi) in the Formal Examination Session of the Employment Image Law at the Constitutional Court (MK), Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Thursday 17 June.

The government also requested that the Constitutional Court (MK) accept the president's statement in its entirety, state that the applicant has no legal standing, and reject the request for a formal review of Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation against the 1945 Constitution.

Coordinating Minister Airlangga said that the issuance of the Job Creation Law was intended to provide legal certainty protection and the fulfillment of citizens' rights to obtain jobs and a decent living as an association and assembly.

"As guaranteed in the provisions of Article 27 Paragraph 2 Article 28 Article 28c Paragraph 2 Article 28d Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 of the 1945 Constitution," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga.

Furthermore, Coordinating Minister Airlangga said that the applicants were not at all hindered in carrying out their activities or activities caused by the enactment of the Job Creation Law because the Act would actually absorb the widest possible Indonesian workforce in the midst of increasingly competitive competition and demands of economic globalization and increase protection and worker welfare.

"So that the constitutional rights of the petitioners are not reduced at all, eliminated, limited to being complicated or harmed," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga.

Therefore, the government emphasizes that the formation of the Job Creation Law has gone through the procedures and stages in accordance with the provisions of the rights of public participation.

The trial was conducted virtually, led by Chief Justice Anwar and attended by Coordinating Minister for Airlangga Hartarto, Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly, Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arifin Tasrif, Minister of PUPR Basuki Hadimuljono, Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/BPN Sofyan Djalil, Minister of LHK Siti Nurbaya, Minister of Transportation Budi Karya and through a video conference link, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD and representatives of the Indonesian House of Representatives Arteria Dahlan.

Previously, the Constitutional Court had held a preliminary examination hearing for the judicial review of Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation on Wednesday, April 21.

In the trial, the applicant, namely the Federation of Indonesian Metal Workers Union (FSPMI), considered that the Job Creation Act was made not in accordance with the procedures for establishing legislation.