Baleg DPR Has Received The Surpres Revision Of The Wantimpres Law

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JAKARTA - The Legislation Body of the DPR RI stated that it had received a presidential letter regarding the Draft Law on Amendments to Law Number 19 of 2006 concerning the Presidential Advisory Council or Wantimpres for further discussion. "This is still waiting for DIM (problem inventory list) from the government, but the presidential decree already exists," said Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives Baleg Wihadi Wiyanto while chairing the Plenary Meeting of the DPR Baleg at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Monday, August 26. However, Wihadi said that the DIM for the revision of the Wantimpres Law which would change the nomenclature to the Supreme Advisory Council was still in the process of being prepared by the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform. "The Advisory Council or Wantimpres has an assignment to Baleg, only the DIM is not ready yet," he said. In addition to the revision of the Wantimpres Law, Wihadi added that the DPR Baleg is also ready to roll out a discussion of the Bill on Amendments to Law Number 37 of 2008 concerning the Indonesian Ombudsman. "So, this one already has a presidential and DIM," he said. However, despite having already obtained the presidential decree and the DIM revision of the Ombudsman Law sent by the government, the DPR Baleg still regulates the schedule for discussing the bill with the Minister for Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform Abdullah Azwar Anas. Wihadi said that the assignment of the DPR Baleg to discuss the revision of the Wantimpres Law and the revision of the Ombudsman Law as decided in a consultation meeting to replace the DPR Deliberative Body (Bamus) meeting on May 27 and June 7, 2024. "So, the two laws, which are ready for us to discuss in the near future," he said. Previously, the Legislative Council of the Republic of Indonesia agreed to cancel the discussion of the Bill on Amendments to Law Number 34 of 2004 concerning the Indonesian National Army (TNI) and the Bill on the Third Amendment to Law Number 2 of 2002 concerning the Indonesian National Police (Polri). Wihadi said the Legislative Council of the Republic of Indonesia decided to postpone and/or cancel the discussion on the revision of the TNI Law and the Police Law for further discussion of the dioper (carry over) to the Indonesian House of Representatives for the period 2024 – 2049.

"Yes, we decided to cancel it, we will see the urgency to discuss it in the next period. After that, we will see the next period regarding the carry-over issue. So, we will see the urgency," he said.