DPR Mentioned Considerations For Choosing Candidates For Supreme Court Justices, Starting From National Views To Extremism Tendencies

Member of Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives Arsul Sani/Via ANTARA

JAKARTA - Member of Commission III of the DPR RI Arsul Sani mentioned a number of factors for consideration in selecting candidates for Supreme Court Justices (CHA) and candidates for ad hoc judges for criminal acts of corruption (tipikor) at the Supreme Court (MA).

"The DPR will look at the track record in the field of law, financial transactions, national views, tendencies of extremism, and the knowledge of candidates for Supreme Court justices in their papers. The paper is quite thick," said Arsul at the DPR RI building complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, June 29. .

Commission III of the DPR is currently conducting a fit and proper test of 11 candidates for Supreme Court justices and candidates for ad hoc corruption judges.

Arsul said six candidates had undergone the compliance and feasibility test on Tuesday, while the other five candidates will undergo the test on Wednesday at 19.00 WIB.

He said that the DPR would make a decision after a compliance and due diligence test on Wednesday night.

This fit and proper test, he said, is the DPR's constitutional obligation to state whether or not it agrees or disagrees with candidates for Supreme Court justices who have received approval from the Judicial Commission (KY).

"The process starts with making papers​​​​​​​ At this time, there are questions and answers to clarify a number of things, especially input from the community," said the politician from the United Development Party (PPP).

Regarding who could potentially be elected, Arsul asked to be patient because the process is still ongoing and it is still too soon for him to talk about it.

"We'll see who has the potential because it's still going on. I can't comment yet. Of that, whether it was approved, partially approved, or all rejected," he said.

The fit and proper test of candidates for Supreme Court justices and ad hoc corruption judge candidates in the Supreme Court started Monday (27/6, with the preparation of papers by 11 prospective judges.

Furthermore, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the fit and proper test was conducted with the presentation of the ideas of the prospective judges, as well as questions and answers with members of Commission III of the DPR.

Six prospective judges who took part in the due diligence yesterday, namely: CHA of the Religious Chamber of Abdul Hakim; CHA of the State Administrative Chamber (TUN) for Taxes, Triyono Martanto; The Criminal Chamber CHA consists of Subiharta, Suradi, Wilem Saija, and Sudharmawatiningsih.

The five other prospective judges who will run the due diligence on Wednesday are: CHA Civil Chamber Nani Indrawati; CHA of the State Administration Special Chamber for the Bright Build Tax; and three candidates for ad hoc corruption judges in the Supreme Court, namely Agustinus Purnomo Hadi, Arizon Mega Jaya, and Rodjai S. Irawan.