Amendments To The 1945 Constitution And PPHN Need In-depth Study, Sufmi Dasco: If Necessary, To What Extent?

Vice Chairman of the House of Representatives Sufmi Dasco Ahmad. (Photo: dpr.go.id)

JAKARTA - The daily chairman of the Gerindra Party, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, assessed that the discourse on amendments to the 1945 Constitution was limited to reviving the Basic Principles of State Policy (PPHN) and needed to be studied more deeply. This study is useful to find out whether there is urgency or not revisions are made.

"I think everything should be studied in depth to decide whether it should be amended or not", Dasco said in a statement, Friday, August 20.

"Or if it is amended, what should be amended, and to what extent?", he continued.

According to the Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, the statement by the Chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly, Bambang Soesatyo, regarding the discourse on the amendment to the 1945 Constitution is only a discourse at the Annual Session.

Meanwhile, the position of the Gerindra Party faction regarding the limited amendment to the 1945 Constitution, said Dasco, is still in the stage of being studied internally by the party. Thus, there has been no official and final decision regarding the discourse on amendments to the 1945 Constitution.

"So far, internally, we are still studying Gerindra. So I can't say on behalf of Gerindra yet whether it's necessary or not", said Dasco.

Previously, Bambang Soesatyo considered that there was a need to amend the Basic Law to accommodate the Basic Principles of State Policy (PPHN). Therefore, a limited amendment to the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia is needed, especially the addition of the MPR's authority to stipulate PPHN.

"The process of changing the Constitution by the provisions of Article 37 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia has strict requirements and mechanisms. Therefore, amendments to the Constitution can only be made to articles that are proposed to be amended along with the reasons", said Bambang Soesatyo in his introductory speech to the People's Consultative Assembly Annual Session at the Nusantara Building, Jakarta Parliament Complex, Monday, August 16.