Waka Baleg DPR hopes that the Election Bill will be discussed immediately, asking the political party leaders to the DPR to be serious

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JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the DPR Legislation Agency (Baleg) from the Golkar Faction, Ahmad Doli Kurnia, hopes that the revision of the Law on General Elections (Pemilu) will be discussed soon. Considering, the many decisions of the Constitutional Court (MK) which require changes in the law.

"Yes, I hope (soon), yes, I am grateful if the law is immediately discussed as soon as possible. Because I have been a long time, yes, if you talk about the period, from the last period, I actually include people who encourage the revision of the electoral law to happen immediately. And in this period, I have been talking about the importance of revising the Electoral Law since I was inaugurated," said Doli Kurnia at the DP building, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, April 15.

"Why? First, there have been many Constitutional Court rulings regarding the election law. And the most phenomenal, which is often discussed is the Constitutional Court's decision 135, which requires a division of the national election with local elections. Well, that's actually what we have to respond to," continued the former Chairman of Commission III of the DPR.

Doli said that as a large party, it disagreed with the division of elections, especially for the election of district/city DPRD with the provincial DPRD. Therefore, he assessed, the disapproval must be answered with a revision of the law.

"Therefore, whatever our views, whatever our opinions, agree or disagree, it all comes back to discussing the law," said the member of Commission II of the DPR.

"Well, we are actually in Commission II continue to encourage yes, even several times in our internal meetings we urge the leadership to immediately schedule," added Doli.

Doli said that the DPR's Commission II should have scheduled an internal meeting during this session to listen to the presentation from the BKD (Council of Expertise). However, yesterday it was delayed without reason.

The Golkar politician also hopes that all political party leaders and the DPR leadership, as well as the leaders of the factions in parliament, will be serious and then sit together to set a schedule for discussing the Election Law.

"Because of the second reason, besides the Constitutional Court's decision, this time is getting closer and closer, the election is getting closer and closer. If we look at the current law, the government should have formed the election organizing team in August or September. Now it's already May, let's say it's already started, "he said.

"Well, even if it is discussed, do we want to discuss it for only two months, three months? Well, if we don't discuss it, when will we start those stages? Well, the longer it takes, what will it be, we shouldn't discuss it anymore or we have to avoid discussing laws that are rushed, rushed ahead of the election. That means later it won't be objective, because while we want to build this is the second phase of 25 years of reform development. We should lay the foundation of the law or the system that is really for the long term, yes, decades to come. Therefore, this law must be serious, must be as ideal as possible, approximately," concluded Doli.