JAKARTA - The Indonesian House of Representatives regrets the investment minister's statement, Bahlil Lahadalia, who claims that the business world hopes that the 2024 election schedule will be postponed or that the term of office of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) be extended to 2027. The reason is due to economic considerations due to the pandemic.
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HNW instead asked the business community, which has been assisted by hundreds of trillions of rupiah through the state budget, to focus on creating conducive conditions and complying with the provisions of the constitution. In addition, entrepreneurs should also make maximum contributions to overcome economic and social problems resulting from COVID-19.
"Because the provisions regarding the term of office of the president are not the domain of entrepreneurs, but the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. The rules are also very clear and firm," said the PKS politician.
Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia only allows the president to serve a maximum of two terms, and Article 22 E mandates that elections be held every five years, he said.
"This means that it has been fixed, there is no constitutional alternative for an extension to three periods, nor an additional three years for a second period because it is not in accordance with the constitution," said HNW to reporters, Tuesday, January 11.
Moreover, the authority to amend the provisions of the Constitution rests with the MPR (articles 3 and 37), and in the MPR there is no agenda for amending the Constitution to extend the term of office of the president.
He also emphasized that none of the MPR members proposed the change, even though the Constitution stipulates that the minimum number of proposers is 1/3 of the MPR members, which is 237 MPR members.
"So it is natural that the government and the DPR have also agreed that the elections (legislative and presidential/executive) will still be held in accordance with the provisions of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and the Election Law, namely in 2024," he said.
Previously, this was conveyed by Bahlil when commenting on the findings of a national survey entitled 'Economic Recovery Post COVID-19, Pandemic Fatigue and Electoral Dynamics Ahead of the 2024 Election' conducted by Indonesian Political Indicators.
Based on discussions held with business actors, Bahlil revealed that the reason why entrepreneurs wanted the 2024 presidential election to be postponed was to encourage the national economy, which is currently recovering.
"If we check the business world, on average, they think how the democratic process in the context of the transition of leadership is, if there is room for consideration, the process to be pushed back is much better," said Bahlil in the agenda for the findings of the Political Indicators survey, quoted Monday, January 10.
To note, the Indonesian Political Indicators survey noted that 31 percent of the public agreed if President Jokowi's term of office was extended until 2027. However, 32.9 percent of respondents did not agree and 25.1 percent did not agree at all with extending the presidential term until 2027.
The people who agree, hope that the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national economic recovery can be completed completely.
Bahlil stated that this was in line with several discussions he had with the business world. He said the business community thought that it would be burdensome if the business world had to face political problems in the near future. In fact, according to him, the Indonesian people need to decide which issues are their priority.
"Is it a matter of resolving the pandemic, economic recovery, or choosing a new leadership through elections," he said.
According to Bahlil, all countries in the world are facing the same two big problems, namely the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic.
He acknowledged that economic recovery is not an easy thing, but Indonesia's economic growth is still showing positive things, shown by the 3.5 percent achievement in the third quarter of 2021.
Although, the public has not been able to satisfy the current economic conditions, Bahlil is happy to see the increase in the level of public satisfaction with the performance of the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin government in the last 4 months, which reached 71 percent in December 2021 according to the survey.
“We work day and night in this cabinet and detail. Mr. President did not give orders to continue releasing. He checked to what extent, what is the problem and what is the target?” he said.
In addition, he emphasized that the business world is currently in a recovery trend after being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic which lasted from 2020 to 2021. For this reason, it is hoped that this recovery momentum will not be hampered due to political stability that is not going well.
"They have just finished being battered with health issues. This is a new business world, just about to go up, it suddenly overwrites political issues. So that's the result of my discussions with them (entrepreneurs)," he said.
Bahlil continued that the potential to advance or delay the election schedule is not something that is forbidden because it has a history in Indonesia.
He explained that in Indonesia's history, elections were held in 1997. However, reforms in 1999 meant that the elections that were supposed to be held in 2002 were accelerated and held in 1999.
"All we have to do is see what the needs of our nation are, whether the problem is solving the COVID-19 pandemic, whether the problem is restoring the economy, or the question is how we choose a new leadership through elections," he said.
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