The Leadership Of The DPR Will Review The Constitutional Court's Decision On The Prohibition Of Active Police Occupying Civil Positions

Deputy Speaker Of The House Of Representatives Sufmi Dasco Ahmad/PHOTO: Nailin In Saroh-VOI

JAKARTA - Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, stated that the leadership of the DPR will study and review the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) which prohibits members of active police from holding civilian positions. Including an order to resign if you continue to serve as a civilian position.

"It is clear in consideration and others that we are still studying, especially regarding that, if I catch it, that the police can only place personnel outside the police institution who are in contact with police duties, if I'm not mistaken," Dasco told reporters, Friday, November 14.

Dasco emphasized that the task of the police was originally regulated in Law Number 2 of 2002.

"And that, the duties of the police are regulated in the 1945 Constitution. Now that will be explained later, please elaborate the police with PAN-RB and others," he said.

Previously it was reported, the Constitutional Court (MK) emphasized that members of the Indonesian National Police (Polri) who occupy positions outside the police, aka civilian positions, must resign or retire from the police service.

The Constitutional Court through Decision Number 114/PUU-XXIII/2025 which was pronounced on Thursday, removed the provisions that had been an opening for active police to occupy civilian positions without first relinquishing their membership status.

"Declaring the phrase 'or not based on the assignment of the National Police Chief' in Article 28 paragraph (3) of Law Number 2 of 2002 concerning the Police contradicts the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and does not have binding legal force," said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Suhartoyo in the Plenary Courtroom. MK, Jakarta.

The Court in this case granted the application of advocate Syamsul Jahidin and student Christian Adrianus Sihite in its entirety. The petitioners tested the constitutionality of the norms of Article 28 paragraph (3) and the Explanation of Article 28 paragraph (3) of the Police Law.

Article 28 paragraph (3) of the National Police Law states that "Members of the Indonesian National Police can occupy positions outside the police after resigning or retiring from the police service."

Meanwhile, the Explanation of Article 28 paragraph (3) of the Police Law reads, What is meant by position outside the police' is a position that has nothing to do with the police or is not based on an assignment from the National Police Chief."