JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Constitutional Court will expectedly start the first trial of the judicial review request over the newly revised Legislative Institution Law (also called the MD3 Law) No. 17/2004 on Thursday (August 28).
The Court has set the first trial tomorrow at around 3:00 pm Jakarta time.
Commenting to the upcoming trial, Andi Muhammad Asrun, the lawyer of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said his client hopes the court could make its final ruling before October 1, 2014, the inauguration day of the new members of the House of Representatives (DPR).
As reported earlier, last month, PDI-P filed a judicial review request over the MD3 Law to the Constitutional Court, demanding the court to review some articles in the newly revised law, especially Article 84 of the law, which regulates a voting mechanism to select the next Speaker of the House, instead of automatically granting the position to PDI-P as the winner of 2014 legislative election.
Besides PDI-P, four other groups also filed a judicial review over the newly revised MD3 Law. A civil society group of anti-corruption activists, for example, demanded the court to review Article 245 Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 3 of the newly revised MD3 Law that allegedly giving such impunity for lawmakers from investigation of the law enforcers. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)