DPR Leaders Immediately Schedule A Meeting To Improve The Job Creation Law With The Government Before Recess

Vice Chairman of the House of Representatives Sufmi Dasco Ahmad (Photo: Nailin In Saroh/VOI)

JAKARTA - The leadership of the DPR RI will soon hold a consultation meeting with the leadership of the Legislative Body (Baleg) of the DPR to discuss Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation.

Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, said that the DPR's review body had reviewed the law.

"For several days the DPR's review board has made a study and in the near future. The DPR leadership will hold a consultation meeting with the relevant Baleg and AKD leaders in the DPR," said Sufmi Dasco at the DPR Building, Monday, November 29.

Furthermore, said Dasco, the DPR will soon hold a working meeting with the government to take further steps related to improving the law before the recess period. It is known that the DPR only has two weeks to go.

"We will plan to hold a working meeting with the government, together to discuss the studies that have been reviewed between the DPR and the government to determine further steps in the future. Considering the working period of the DPR RI is only until the effective date of December 15," said Dasco.

Meanwhile, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has opened his voice regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) regarding Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation. The Constitutional Court declared that the Job Creation Act was conditional and had to be revised in two years.

Jokowi ensures that the government respects the Constitutional Court's decision and immediately revises the Job Creation Act as soon as possible. Referring to the Constitutional Court's decision, he stated that the current implementing regulations for the Job Creation Law still apply.

"As a democracy based on law, the government respects and immediately implements the decision of the Constitutional Court, MK, Number 91/PUU-XVIII/2020. I have ordered the coordinating ministers and relevant ministers to immediately follow up on the Constitutional Court's decision as soon as possible," said Jokowi during a press conference at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Monday, November 29.

Jokowi said that the Constitutional Court had stated that the Job Creation Law was still in effect. The government and the DPR as legislators are given a maximum of two years to make revisions or improvements.

"Thus, all the existing implementing regulations for the Job Creation Act are still valid," he said.