JAKARTA - The observer of the law at the State Islamic University of Samarinda, Suwardi Sagama, assessed that the opportunity to revise the KPK Law to the old version is open if President Prabowo is strongly committed to eradicating corruption. Moreover, the majority of the parliamentary parties are currently supporters of the Prabowo President's government.
"Even the chances are great if there is a commitment to return it. However, do not give it just a moment of pleasure, but without any real action back to the previous KPK Law," he said, Sunday, March 1.
According to him, if President Prabowo wants the eradication of corruption to run well, then the anti-corruption agency must be restored to its independence so that it is not easily intervened in. Because, the eradication of corruption must be strengthened from the legal basis that releases objects and subjects from any intervention or intimidation, including executive power.
Suwardi revealed that efforts to revise the KPK Law to the old version could be carried out through the "change" mechanism by changing the crucial article to return to the old version of the KPK Law or changing it entirely into a new KPK Law, but with a similar model to the KPK version before it was revised in 2019.
"The current legal concept, if there are articles and paragraphs that want to be changed, then it is called a change. If there are many or all of them, then it becomes a new law. Returning to the old KPK Law in my opinion will pass one of these two ways. Why should it go through that way, because there is a legislative process that the government goes through with the DPR," he explained.
Another mechanism that can be taken is by applying for a test to the Constitutional Court (MK) to revoke the KPK Law as a result of the revision and reactivate the old KPK Law. "As far as I know, the Constitutional Court has issued several decisions revoking the new law and reactivating the old law," continued Suwardi.
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