Finally, DKI DPRD Holds Formula E Interpellation Plenary Tomorrow

Chairman of the DKI DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi during a KPK investigation (Photo: Wardhani Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Jakarta DPRD Deliberative Body (Bamus) has just held a meeting to determine the schedule for the plenary meeting to determine the interpellation rights for Formula E to DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan.

The chairman of the DKI DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi, said that the interpellation plenary meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at 10:00 western Indonesia time.

"After the work plan, proposals, are all discussed, and finished. There are proposals from 2 factions, right because the statute says 15 people are enough to be scheduled (interpelled), it was approved. On 28 tomorrow the plenary session," said Prasetyo when met at the DKI DPRD Building, Monday, September 28.

The plenary meeting that will be held tomorrow is to determine whether the DPRD will conduct an interpellation or not. Interpellation is regulated in the DKI Jakarta DPRD Regulation Number 1 of 2020, specifically in Chapter VIII concerning the Implementation of the Rights of the DPRD and Members of the DKI DPRD.

Article 120 explains that the right of interpellation is the right of the DPRD to request information from the governor regarding regional government policies that are important and strategic and have a broad impact on the life of society and the state.

Currently, there are 33 DPRD members from the PDIP and PSI factions who have signed the proposed interpellation right. Meanwhile, if it is to be realized, the DPRD must hold a plenary meeting to ratify the interpellation.

In order for the interpellation to take place, the plenary meeting required the members present to meet a quorum of 50 percent + 1, or as many as 54 of the total 106 DPRD members.

Therefore, since the interpellation proposal letter was submitted, PDIP and PSI lobbied members of other factions to attend the plenary meeting. Until now, the two factions are still reluctant to divulge which members of the council were successfully lobbied to be able to participate in conducting the interpellation.