Government Proposes Revision Of Job Creation Law For 2022 Priority Prolegnas

JAKARTA - The government through the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto took the initiative to encourage the revision of the Job Creation Law (Ciptaker) to be included in the 2022 Priority National Legislation Program (Prolegnas). This was conveyed by Airlangga after receiving directions from President Joko Widodo today.

According to him, the government will immediately send an official note to parliament as a partner in discussing the regulations that were born in the era of the pandemic.

"The government will send a letter to the leadership of the Indonesian House of Representatives to include the revision of the Job Creation Law into the Priority Prolegnas in 2022," he said through a virtual channel, Monday, November 29.

Airlangga added that the government had also received a copy of the Constitutional Court's (MK) decision which assessed the Copyright Act as unconstitutional and needed improvement.

"This cumulative list has also been given a decision by the Court," he said.

As previously reported, the Constitutional Court considers that the Job Creation Law does not have conditionally binding legal force.

"Contrary to the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and does not have conditional binding legal force as long as it does not mean 'no repairs have been made within 2 years since this decision was pronounced'," said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Anwar Usman when reading the verdict on Thursday, November 25.

However, this regulation is still in effect while making improvements within a maximum period of two years after the decision is pronounced. If within this time limit the legislators do not make improvements, the Job Creation Act becomes permanently unconstitutional.