PDIP Will Respond To The Constitutional Court's Decision After Megawati Returns From China Today

PDI-P politician Aria Bima said his party would respond to the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding the separation of national elections and the area after the return of the PDIP General Chair, Megawati Soekarnoputri to Indonesia. Aria said Megawati had just returned from her working visit to China today.

This was conveyed by Aria Bima regarding the results of the internal PDIP DPP meeting which discussed the Constitutional Court's decision. Aria said there had been no internal PDIP meeting but only held discussion activities or group discussion forums (FGD).

"Actually, it was not a meeting, that the study team from the new DPP held various internal discussions that were looking for information to formulate problems and some alternatives to the solution would later be brought to the DPP meeting," said Aria Bima, at the DPR building, Wednesday, July 16.

"Not yet (to the DPP). There are options that will be brought later. Now I can't convey these options here," he continued.

Aria said that the discourse that surfaced was more about how the Constitutional Court decided, seen from the perspective of democratic consolidation in the future to be better than the previous process.

"It cannot be separated from the laws and regulations that we fix every 5 years. So don't let the Constitutional Court's decision make a process of our setback," he said.

Aria said the narrative that already exists is that the Simultaneous Pilkada is held not far from the time of the presidential election. The narrative, he said, was only a process of changing the national and regional leadership, but the budget cycle remained at the same time.

"So between the president's vision and changes to the regional head below in the context of the unitary state, it is still in one rhythm, this is a good one. Now with the Constitutional Court's decision to the previous narrative, there was a gap between regional elections and the center of the break for almost two years," said Aria.

"Yesterday it was also discussed, for example, why is it not optional for simultaneous elections between the executive and legislature, yes, not between the center and the regions. That it is final and binding, but talks in narratives are not only for party purposes but narratives in the context of building our democracy in the front, which of course must be with a better regulatory system and in the future election participants are increasingly qualified political parties," continued the Deputy Chairman of Commission II of the DPR.

Therefore, Aria emphasized that PDIP has not taken a stand regarding the Constitutional Court's decision. He said that PDIP only took an official stance after the DPP management met Megawati, who was scheduled to arrive in the country today.

"Now the Constitutional Court's decision will be addressed after Mrs. Mega returns from a working visit or visit to China on 16 (July), yesterday's meeting material will be brought to the DPP meeting," he said.

"Mrs. Mega is in China. There has been no chat yet. Mrs. Mega will be chaotic on the 16th," said Aria Bima.