The Constitutional Court Ensures Independently Decides The Lawsuit For The Age Limit Of The Presidential And Vice Presidential Candidates

Illustration of the Constitutional Court (MK). (Antanews)

JAKARTA - The Constitutional Court (MK) ensures that it is independent in deciding the lawsuit against Law Number 7 of 2017 or the Election Law regarding the age limit of the presidential and vice presidential candidates.

"The Constitutional Court is supervised by all eyes, an open trial is attended by all parties, even this is a lot of party, I think the independence of the Constitutional Court is currently still maintained," said Head of the Legal Bureau of Administration and Administrative Affairs of the Constitutional Court Fajar Laksono when met at the Indonesian Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta, Tuesday, August 22, which was confiscated by Antara.

As in other cases, Fajar continued, the process of handling cases related to the age limit for presidential and vice-presidential candidates is running properly. He admitted that there were no signs of independence being disrupted in the process.

"I do not see any signs of independence being disrupted, intervention, and so on. Everything is running on the track," said Fajar.

Furthermore, Fajar said that there were nine judicial review lawsuits related to the presidential and vice presidential age limits. Three of them have entered the trial examination stage.

"Indeed, in general, we question the age (presidential and vice-presidential candidates), but the various petitums," he added.

The three cases that Fajar is referring to are cases registered with number 29/PUU-XXI/2023, 51/PUU-XXI/2023, and 55/PUU-XXI/2023.

"These are the three most distant cases, yes. This means that because they were submitted first, they were registered first. This has already entered the trial examination because they have listened to expert statements, both the applicant and the president," he said.

On the other hand, Fajar was reluctant to comment on the hectic lawsuit for the judicial review of the Election Law which tended to be submitted at a momentum ahead of the election.

"The Constitutional Court did not comment on that. Is it a trend, is it a tendency, but if there is a case submitted to the Constitutional Court, the Court must examine, must be fair, must decide," he said.

Fajar said that the Constitutional Court was focused on handling every case submitted and did not limit the incoming applications.

"The MK's obligation is when a case is filed, when there is a law being tested on the Constitutional Court, yes, the task of the Constitutional Court is to try and decide. That's all," said Fajar.