Djarot Saiful Calls Article 8 Of The 1945 Constitution Limiting The President To 2 Periods As Vice President

Chairman of the MPR RI Assessment Agency Djarot Saiful Hidayat (Photo: Via ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the MPR RI Assessment Agency Djarot Saiful Hidayat explained the rules in Indonesia's constitutional system regarding the nomination of the President after a two-term term of office to become Vice President. Djarot explained that if he only referred to Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution, the President could nominate himself as Vice President after two terms of office. However, the regulation, he continued, would collide with Article 8 of the 1945 Constitution. "So he (the president) may nominate as Vice President if we only refer to Article 7, but if we continue, it refers to Article 8, now this is the problem," said Djarot at the KPU RI Building, Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, September 21. Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution allows, but Article 8 of the 1945 Constitution limits. He explained the contents of the rules in Article 8 of the 1945 Constitution which stated that if the President died, stopped or was unable to remain, the Vice President would replace him with the remainder of his term of office. "This means that being the Vice President has increased to being President, the rules are hitting Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution," he said. In addition to these rules, Djarot underlined the issue of political ethics and political morals which became one study material if the President, who has served for two terms, could nominate himself as Vice President in the next period. "With such a record, the Institute for Assessment Agency then the MPR Assessment Agency is not in the right place to be able to provide a response, it must be A or must be B, but we only explain that this is our constitutional system, this is our constitution," said Djarot.