Fintech Legal Expert And Former Chief Justice Of The Constitutional Court Jagokan Mahendra-Mirza Becomes Chair And Deputy Chair Of The OJK DK

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JAKARTA - Legal expert on Fintech and Digital Finance as well as Legal Director of Finpedia and Commissioner of Digiscore Chandra Kusuma explained the ideal criteria for leadership of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) in the perspective of law enforcement and market conduct supervision.

He said, the chairman and deputy chairman of the OJK need to have the seven attributes that are crucial in the leadership of the OJK.

"The chairman and vice chairman of OJK should ideally be technocratic, academic and reformist, meaning they have the courage to bring about and quickly bring about positive change. Then they are also synergistic and diplomatic, in the sense of being able to build effective collaboration and communication with institutions related to the financial services industry such as Bank Indonesia and the Ministry of Finance. for the purposes of, among others, institutional synergies and harmonization of effective policies and regulations," said Chandra in his statement at the National Webinar on Policy Directions for the Financial Services Industry Supervisory Agency: Evaluation and Reconstruction, Wednesday 6 April.

In addition, Chandra said that OJK leadership must be innovative and Pancasilais. This means that OJK leaders must have a high spirit of nationalism and apply a leadership style that is in line with the ideology of this country.

"So that what is being fought for is the interests of the state and the people, not only the interests of business actors and the financial services industry. I think all these attributes are in the figures of Mahendra Siregar and Mirza Adityaswara," said Chandra.

On the same occasion, Prof. Jimly Asshiddiqie, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Indonesia (UI) and Chairman of the Constitutional Court for the 2003 period also voiced his support for Mirza's nomination as Deputy Chair of the OJK.

In front of hundreds of students who attended online and speakers from the University of Indonesia and Gadjah Mada University, the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court hoped for Mirza's success in being elected as OJK Deputy Chair after previously serving as Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia for the 2013-2019 period.

Meanwhile, Chandra sees the combination of Mahendra and Mirza as the ideal combination of the Chair and Deputy Chair of the OJK.

"OJK needs to be led by a Chair and Deputy Chair who are really proficient in many relevant matters. This means that they are adept at leading with integrated supervision, adept at bringing about positive change, adept at finding solutions to many problems in the financial services industry and adept at understanding market conduct and consumer protection and, most importantly, proficient in fighting for the interests of the state," said Chandra.

Therefore, said Chandra, Mahendra-Mirza has been proven to be proficient in multidimensional expertise and a multidisciplinary approach which is crucial to leading OJK in the future.

In fact, he said, the Mahir (Mahendra-Mirza) duo would be ideally suited to lead the OJK in this new period to fully support President Jokowi's target of accelerating recovery and national economic growth during and after the pandemic.