Mahfud MD Regarding Changing The Age Of Candidates For Regional Heads: Winning The Brother Of The Constitutional Court, Winning Adek In The Supreme Court

JAKARTA - Former Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD, commented on the decision of the Supreme Court which changed the age requirements for regional head candidates from 30 years when registration became the aftermath of the inauguration. Where the decision actually caused public ridicule. According to Mahfud, public ridicule is a consequence of the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) which passed President Joko Widodo's eldest son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka as vice presidential candidate which was then followed by the Supreme Court's decision. "In my opinion, it is a logical consequence of the actions that have been carried out by the executive. If the Constitutional Court is not executive who is then judged to be flawed in violating the heavy ethics, that part is so that the community is associated there. So that the court of brother, the child's court arises. What is the name, winning the brother is MK, winning the brother is MA. Yes, it becomes a ridicule in the public," Mahfud said in Mahfud MD official's youtube account quoted on Wednesday, June 5. Mahfud assessed that the law in Indonesia is now in poor condition. So that the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court is lazy to respond.

"We are certainly lazy to comment on something like that, so that it rots itself. It is rotten the way we are punished, it is rotten now," he said.

Even Mahfud has asked law experts about the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Constitutional Court which are considered to accommodate the interests of Jokowi's two sons. He said all legal experts had raised their hands.

"I've asked where the legal experts are, 'how do you fix it, sir', 'yes, I don't know how this is, this is all lined up'," Mahfud said, telling the answers of legal experts.

Therefore, Mahfud hopes that the government that will be led by Prabowo Subianto as the elected president can improve the legal conditions that have been continued to be 'broiled'. "But if I still have hope, hopefully later when Pam Prabowo has been inaugurated, it will make good changes, because it will help the government, for Pak Prabowo, if the law is enforced properly," he concluded.