JAKARTA - Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi, said that his party would hold a plenary meeting regarding the dismissal of the Governor of DKI Jakarta and the Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta for the 2017-2022 period.

This is a follow-up to a letter sent by the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri). Prasetyo said that this dismissal was carried out because the tenure of Anies Baswedan and Ahmad Riza Patria would end in October 2022.

Thus, Prasetyo will hold a meeting of the Jakarta DPRD Deliberative Body to determine the schedule for the plenary meeting to dismiss Anies and Riza as regional heads in the capital city.

The schedule-setting meeting was held at the Grand Cempaka Resort, Bogor, West Java, on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.

“Before the dismissal, it has to be mixed up first. The program is about the determination of the plenary meeting schedule for the announcement of the dismissal of the Governor and Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, then the plenary meeting for the closing of the second trial period and the opening of the third trial period in 2022," Prasetyo said in a short message, Friday, August 26.

For information, the dismissal of governors and deputy governors as regional heads is a mandate of Law Number 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government.

This dismissal must be proposed to the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) regarding the heads and deputy regional heads whose terms of office expire in 2022.

Based on the provisions of Article 79 paragraph (1) of the Regional Government Law, it is stated that the dismissal of the regional head or deputy regional head as referred to in Article 78 paragraph (1) letters a and b as well as paragraph (2) letters a and b is announced by the leadership of the DPRD in plenary meeting.

The dismissal is also proposed by the leadership of the DPRD to the President through the Minister for the governor and/or deputy governor and to the Minister through the governor as the representative of the Central Government.

Based on these provisions, the leadership of the Provincial DPRD is to propose the dismissal of the governor and or deputy governor to the president through the Minister of Home Affairs

by attaching the minutes and minutes of the plenary meeting of the Provincial DPRD.

The proposal to dismiss the governor and/or deputy governor shall be submitted to the Minister of Home Affairs at the latest 30 days before the end of their second term of office.


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