Revision Of The Constitutional Court Law Entering The DPR Prolegnas, Chief Justice Of The Constitutional Court: The Authority Of The Former Of The Law

Chairman of the Constitutional Court (MK) Suhartoyo (left) together with Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Enny Nurbaningsih (right). (ANTARA PHOTO-Rivan Awal Lingga)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Constitutional Court (MK) Suhartoyo said that the revision of Law Number 24 of 2003 concerning the Constitutional Court is the full authority of the legislators.

Therefore, Suhartoyo did not want to comment much on the discourse of the revision.

"We have no comment (no comment). Go ahead, because that is the authority of the legislators," Suhartoyo said when met at the Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta, Wednesday, confiscated by Antara.

The issue of the revision of the Constitutional Court Law recently emerged after the decision of the Court Number 135 / PUU-XXII / 2024 concerning the separation of national and regional elections.

However, member of Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives Hinca Panjaitan previously said that there was no schedule for discussing the revision of the Constitutional Court Law which was rolled out in parliament due to the polemic of the election separation decision.

The revision of the Constitutional Court Law, said Hinca, was not included in the list of the DPR RI's annual priority national legislation program (prolegnas).

"If the revision of the Constitutional Court Law is to this day, right, the Constitutional Court Law is still there, there is no progress, there is no schedule to change the Constitutional Court because it must be in the National Legislation Program or the Constitutional Court's own decision to be submitted. Until yesterday there was no," said Hinca in Jakarta, Monday, July 28.

However, he stressed that the DPR RI has the authority of the supervisory function to be able to evaluate the Constitutional Court so that the duties, principals, and functions it carries out do not come out of the constitution.

"What we are doing is in the context of our state administration so that all institutions formed in this republic, both because of the constitution and law, are loyal to his main duties and functions," he said.

For this reason, he dismissed if there was an evaluation carried out by Commission III of the DPR RI regarding the performance of the Constitutional Court as a form of chaos.

"If then the Constitutional Court runs or leaves its function, who will supervise it? It's not allowed, every institution must be watching it, at least he is. Well, when he can no longer supervise it, then the community is the one watching it. Well, the public is watching who? The deputy is the DPR, that is what represents the community," he said.