Istana Admits There Was A Typo Of Job Creation Law, State Secretary: It Happened Since The DPR

Minister of State Secretary (Mensesneg) Pratikno (Photo: Setgab)

JAKARTA - State Secretariat Minister (Mensesneg) Pratikno admitted that there was a typo or typo in Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation. However, he considered, this would not affect the implementation of the law.

"Today we found a technical error in writing in Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation. However, this mistake is administrative in nature so that it does not affect the implementation of the Job Creation Law," said Pratikno in his written statement to reporters, Tuesday, November 3.

He then explained that the typo in the statutory text had actually happened since the file was received from the Indonesian Parliament. Kemensetneg, he continued, has also tried to correct the writing errors that exist in this Job Creation Law.

"The Ministry of State Secretariat has conducted a review and found a number of technical mistakes. The Ministry of State Secretariat has also submitted to the Secretary General of the DPR to agree on the repairs," he said.

Meanwhile, regarding this mistake, Pratikno said, this typo or typo would be a note for the government. So that in the future, mistakes like this will not be repeated.

"This is a note and input for us to continue to refine the quality control of the bill that is about to be promulgated so that technical technical errors like this do not happen again," he said.

As previously reported, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) officially signed the Omnibus Law on the Job Creation Law which was passed by the DPR on October 5. The signing of this law was held on Monday, November 2 and promulgated in Law Number 11 of 2020.

The government has also officially uploaded a copy of this law via the jdih.setneg.go.id site. The number of pages in the Job Creation Law is 1,187 pages.

Meanwhile, the writing error in the text of Law 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation is contained in the Job Creation Law Article 6 which reads:

Improvement of the investment ecosystem and business activities as referred to in Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a includes:

a. application of risk-based business licensing;

b. simplifying the basic requirements for Business Licensing;

c. Simplification of sector business licensing; and

d. simplification of investment requirements

Article 5 paragraph 1 letter a is not in the Law signed by Jokowi. Because there is no derivative verse in the article which reads as follows:

The scope as referred to in Article 4 covers the legal fields regulated in the relevant laws.