The Constitutional Court Is Not Disturbed By The Polemic Of The Pilkada Bill, The Agenda Of The Road Session Continues

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Constitutional Court (MK) Fajar Laksono ensured that the constitutional guard institution was not disturbed by the polemic of the Pilkada Draft Law (RUU) which was currently rolling.

Fajar, who is also the Head of the Legal and Administrative Bureau of the Constitutional Court, explained that all trial agendas in the Constitutional Court continue as they should be.

"If I see everything running. All agendas are running, the scheduled hearing is running, nothing is disturbed, everything is running at the Constitutional Court. All trials are running, judges are on trial, the parties are also called to come to trial," Fajar said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, August 22.

He also emphasized that the Constitutional Court, institutionally, could not act anything related to the polemic of the Pilkada Bill which did not accommodate the Constitutional Court's decision.

"Because for the Constitutional Court, the authority is complete when the decision has been made. The Constitutional Court speaks only through a decision," said Fajar.

The authority of the Constitutional Court, he said, had actually been completed with the reading of the verdict. Through its decision, the Constitutional Court provides answers, solutions, and interpretations related to the constitutionality issue of an article.

"And the Constitutional Court's decision has been knocked. I think everyone knows, journalists also know, the Constitutional Court's decision is final and binding," he also said.

When asked about the implementing of the law, Fajar emphasized that it was not under the authority of the Constitutional Court.

"How then the Constitutional Court's decision was implemented, it was not the Constitutional Court's authority anymore, it was the authority to implement the law. Because what is being tested is law, the law has changed based on the decision of the Constitutional Court, please implement it," he said.

Today, the DPR is scheduled to hold a plenary meeting on the Revision of the Regional Head Election Law (RUU Pilkada). However, the meeting was postponed because the number of meeting participants was not quorum.

Previously, the Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR and the Government agreed to continue discussing the Bill on the Fourth Amendment to Law Number 1 of 2015 at the nearest DPR plenary meeting to be ratified into law.

The approval was agreed at the Working Committee Meeting (Panja) of the Pilkada Bill of the Legislation Body of the DPR, Wednesday, August 21.

There are two crucial materials for the Pilkada Bill that were agreed upon in the Panja Meeting of the Pilkada Bill, namely the age requirements for regional head candidates and the threshold for pilkada candidacy.

The Pilkada Bill has drawn polemics in the community because it does not fully accommodate the Constitutional Court's Decision Number 70/PUU-XXII/2024 and the Constitutional Court Decision Number 60/PUU-XXII/2024 which was read out on Tuesday, August 20, 2024.