JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correction Yusril Ihza Mahendra emphasized that the authority to determine the structure of the National Police organization is entirely in the hands of the President and the House of Representatives (DPR).
"How will the composition and authority of the National Police go forward, whether it remains as it is now or there will be a change in structure, everything is under the authority of the President and the DPR to decide," said Yusril as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, October 20.
The discourse on the formation of a Police Reform Committee or Commission initiated by President Prabowo Subianto raises public discussions regarding the composition and position of the Police.
The Coordinating Minister considered it reasonable, so the government respects and respects it as an expression of freedom of speech and freedom of the academic pulpit.
According to him, such thoughts can be donated to the Police Reform Commission to be discussed, but the final decision remains in the hands of the President.
Yusril explained that the constitutional basis for regulating the structure of the National Police is regulated in Article 30 paragraph (5) of the 1945 Constitution (UUD) which states that the composition and position of the TNI and Polri as well as the relationship of authority between the two is regulated by law.
This is reaffirmed in Chapter II Article 8 of Law Number 2 of 2002 concerning the National Police which states that the Police are under the President and the Chief of Police is directly responsible to the President.
Therefore, normatively, he continued, whether the position of the Police will remain as it is now or will be changed, it all depends on the President and the DPR.
"If it is to be changed, the changes must be regulated by law. We know that the initiative to change the law can come from the President and can also come from the DPR," he said.
Meanwhile, when asked when the President would announce the formation of the Police Reform Commission, Yusril admitted that he had not received the latest information.
"Everything depends on him (President), when is the right time to announce it. I am sure the President must have the right consideration, please wait patiently for him," said the Coordinating Minister.
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