DPR: This Is The First Time The Typo Law Has Been Signed By The President

ILLUSTRATION / DPR Building (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR Supratman Andi Agtas said that there was an editorial error or typo in Law Number 12 of 2020 concerning Job Creation after being signed by President Joko Widodo for the first time this had occurred.

Supratman said that so far there has never been a law that still has editorial errors after being signed by the president. The Job Creation Law is the first.

"Indeed, if the law has been signed after the president has signed it, this (editorial error) is the first time it has been carried out. But, before the president signs it, almost all of the laws have typos like that," Supratman told reporters, Wednesday, November 4.

According to Supratman, if there are still typographical errors in the draft law in the DPR, this often happens. When the draft is submitted to the government, the Minister of State Secretary is in charge of correcting it before it is signed by the President.

"The State Secretary must read first. Therefore, the mechanism called typo correction and so on is always carried out," he said.

Supratman admitted that he would invite the government to improve the typo in the Job Creation Law. He also ensured that both the DPR and the government were responsible that the improvements were only administrative and did not change any substance.

"Together (the DPR and the government). And the DPR is ready to do that and is ready to be accountable that this does not change the substance of the Job Creation Law at all. Because it is purely an administrative error," said Supratman.

Previously, the Ministry of State Secretariat (Kemensetneg) stated a technical error in the text of Law Number 11 of 2011 concerning Job Creation purely due to human negligence, aka human error.

This was followed by a number of errors in the 1,187-page thick law which was only passed on November 2, 2020.

"Kemensetneg has conducted a series of internal examinations and there are no intentional elements. The mistake is purely a 'human error'," said Assistant Deputy of Public Relations at the Ministry of State Secretariat Eddy Cahyono Sugiarto.