Short Meeting, Legislative Council Of The House Of Representatives Brings Revision Of The Regional Head Election Law To Be Ratified Into Law In The Plenary Session Tomorrow

Illustration of the DPR plenary meeting at the Senayan Parliament Complex, Jakarta. (Nailin I S-VOI)aa

JAKARTA - The Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR RI agreed to bring the draft Revision of Law (RUU) Number 10 of 2016 concerning the Election of Regional Heads (Pilkada) to the Plenary Meeting tomorrow Thursday, August 22. The change in the Pilkada Bill annulled the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) which changed the threshold for nomination requirements in the Pilkada. As well as the age limit for regional head candidates to be 30 years old.

The agreement to bring the draft bill on the Pilkada to the Plenary Meeting was taken in a mini-fractional view meeting which was held after the Pilkada Bill Working Meeting on Wednesday, August 21.

Eight out of nine political party factions approved the change to the bill. Among them were the Gerindra, Democrat, Golkar, PKS, NasDem, PAN, PKB, and PPP factions. Meanwhile, those who stated that they did not agree with the bill were brought to the Plenary Session only to the PDIP Faction.

"Can the results of the discussion of the Bill on the fourth amendment to Law number 1 of 2015 concerning Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2014 concerning the Election of Governors, Regents, and Mayors into laws can be processed in accordance with statutory regulations?," said Deputy Baleg DPR RI, Achmad Baidowi in a meeting at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, August 21.

The majority of meeting participants agreed that the revision of the law would be passed into a draft law which will be held tomorrow.

Awiek as the chair of the meeting expressed his gratitude for holding the Panja meeting today. "Alhamdulillah," said Awiek. With this agreement, the draft Pilkada Bill will be brought to a plenary meeting to be ratified into law (UU).

The plenary meeting to ratify the Bill on the Pilkada will be held on Thursday, August 22 tomorrow at around 09.30 WIB in the Plenary Meeting Room of the DPR RI, Parliament Complex, Senayan. Previously, the Legislative Council of the Republic of Indonesia agreed with the Constitutional Court's decision regarding the parliamentary threshold as a condition for the nomination of the Pilkada. The agreement was taken when the Legislative Assembly of the DPR and the government discussed the revision of the Pilkada Law. However, Baleg agreed that the Constitutional Court's decision applies to non-parliamentary parties or do not have seats in the DPRD at all.

Meanwhile, parties that have seats in the DPRD still refer to the old rules, namely being able to carry regional head candidates on the condition that they have a DPRD seat of at least 22 seats. The DPR Legislative Council also agreed that the age rule for regional head candidates (cakada) would still follow the decision of the Supreme Court (MA), not the Constitutional Court's decision.

Where the Supreme Court's decision states that the age of cagub-cawagub is at least 30 years, and 25 years for cawalkot-cawalkot since being inaugurated. Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court emphasized that the requirements for the age of the regional head candidate are calculated since the determination of the person concerned as a candidate for regional head by the KPU.