When Can Discretion Be Done By Government Officials?

YOGYAKARTA In exercising its authority, an official, authority maker, or an institution needs to know when discretion can be done. The reason is, if done appropriately then discretion can be an important step in achieving the goal. On the other hand, discretion decisions taken inappropriately will have the potential to bring losses.

Please note, in the online Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI) it is explained that discretion is the freedom to make their own decisions in every situation faced. In the context of government, discretion is the authority possessed by state officials or administrative agencies to make or make certain decisions without being fully bounded by the law.

Discretion can also be understood as a freedom to make decisions in every situation faced according to his own opinion.

In an article entitled Government Discretion and Accountability in Government Implementation published in the Journal of Yuridis (2015) it is explained that discretion may be carried out by government administration agencies/officials when the applicable law does not regulate an existing matter or rule and discretion is carried out during an emergency or urgent for the common interest that has been determined.

The conditions that are urgent or emergency that can be done by discretion must meet several criteria, namely as follows.

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