House passes Constitutional Court law revision

The House of Representatives has passed a revision of the Constitutional Court law, which makes significant changes to the court's authorities.

Among those changes was the obligation for Constitutional Court justices to have an undergraduate degree in law due to what the House perceived as the complexity of their work.

"They will face a lot of cases that would definitely need strong comprehension in the subject of law. This is the reason why we have come up with the argument,” House of Representatives deputy chief Priyo Budi Santoso said Tuesday.

The second change in authority was that the Constitutional Court would no longer be allowed to deliberate rulings other than the subject requested by those who instigated the case, which in legalese is known as ultra petita ruling.

The revision also ruled that the Constitutional Court's chief justice and deputy chief's tenures would be reduced to two years and six months, from three years.