Coordinating Minister Yusril: Political Parties Must Be Improved Through Revision Of The Law

Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Human Rights Imipas Yusril Ihza Mahendra (center)/ANTARA PHOTO/Fakhri Hermansyah/tom

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Correction Yusril Ihza Mahendra said political parties must be addressed through revisions of the law, both the General Election Law, the Political Party Law, and the MD3 Law (MPR, DPR, DPD, and DPRD).

According to Yusril, after the amendment to the 1945 Constitution, the role of political parties is very large, where the legislative elections can only be followed by political parties and individuals can only be nominated as president and vice president through political parties.

"So, we really have to fix the party because it is impossible for us to create democracy if the political party itself is not democratic," Yusril said at a press conference reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, September 16.

Therefore, Yusril did not deny that the revision of the three laws was very much needed in line with the urgency of reform in the fields of politics, democracy, and law.

Coordinating Minister Yusril said this was also part of the 17+8 People's Demands that the government continues to strive to fulfill because of demands for reform against the House of Representatives (DPR).

"The DPR's reforms cannot be separated from reforms to the Political Party Law, Election Law, and MD3 Law," he said.

Previously, Commission II of the DPR proposed that the revision of the Election Law be discussed in the commission again, following the Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR in the near future to revise the 2024-2029 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas).

"We propose the Election Bill again to be discussed in Commission II of the DPR RI in the form of legal codification and/oromnibus law," said Chairman of Commission II of the DPR Rifqinizamy Karsayuda.

He explained that the revision of the Election Law would be carried out using a codification method or an ambulance so that later there would be other laws and regulations that would be combined in the revision.

A number of laws that are planned to be discussed are the Political Party Law, the Pilkada Law, the Regional Government Law, and the MD3 Law.