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House to pass Perppu on job creation after returning from recess next month
The House of Representatives is set to pass the controversial government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on jobs creation in a plenary meeting in March after securing an endorsement from the House Legislation Body (Baleg) despite criticism of the deliberation being rushed.
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A protester holds a sign that reads: “Overcome the virus, withdraw the omnibus [law]” outside the House of Representatives in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Nov. 12, 2020. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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he House of Representatives is set to pass the controversial government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on job creation in a plenary meeting in March after securing an endorsement from the House Legislation Body (Baleg) despite criticism of the deliberation being rushed.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo signed in December 2022 the Perppu on job creation to resuscitate the Jobs Law, which was declared "conditionally unconstitutional" by the Constitutional Court in 2021 because it used the unrecognized omnibus method to revise multiple laws at once and was deliberated with minimal public participation. The court ordered the government and the House to redo the lawmaking process within two years or it would be permanently revoked. Instead, the government issued the Perppu after it cut corners with lawmakers by enacting another law that allows the use of omnibus methods.
The Perppu secured majority support from Baleg at the end of a two-day meeting between lawmakers and the government on Wednesday evening, with all pro-government parties firmly supporting the government’s decision from the get-go.
The Perppu must be passed by a House plenary session to become permanent legislation.
“On Tuesday [today], we have a plenary session to close this sitting period. Then, we are going to recess until March. Maybe in the first week after recess, when everything is ready, [the Perppu] will be brought to the plenary session," said Baleg deputy chairman M Nurdin, as quoted by Kompas daily.
The government has said the Perppu was to meet "the urgent need to anticipate the global economic crisis and global recession, as well as the need to avert the repercussions of increased inflation and the threat of stagflation".
The Perppu, and Jobs Law, revises dozens of laws all at once to streamline business rules in Southeast Asia's largest economy, which is notorious for its onerous bureaucracy.
