JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Constitutional Court is expected on Monday (Sep. 29) to rule a judicial review of the newly Legislative Institution Law (or known as MD3 Law).
The verdict trial would be held at 4:00 pm of Jakarta time at the Constitutional Court building.
As reported earlier, PDI-P had filed a judicial review request over the MD3 Law to the Constitutional Court.
PDI-P demands 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)