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Draft bylaws piling up month before term ends for Jakarta councillors
The Jakarta Council has yet to endorse any of the 18 draft bylaws listed in this year’s legislation program (Prolegda).
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Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and members of the City Council take part in a special plenary meeting to celebrate Jakarta's 492nd anniversary on June 22. (Antara/Nova Wahyudi)
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ith just one month left before the end of their term, sitting Jakarta councillors have been criticized for putting off the deliberation of crucial draft bylaws as well as meetings to determine a new deputy governor.
The council has yet to endorse any of the 18 draft bylaws listed in this year’s legislative program (Prolegda).
The 2014-2019 city council term ends next month, with councillors securing seats in April’s legislative election to be inaugurated on Aug. 26.
However, the deputy head of the council’s legislation body, Merry Hotma, put the blame on the city administration. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician said the administration should not have taken so long to submit this year’s draft bylaws, as 14 of the 18 drafts had been proposed by the executive.
“[Progress] depends on the executive. We have been waiting for their proposals. All this time, the executive has not intensely proposed drafts,” she told The Jakarta Post on Monday, claiming that all the drafts proposed by the legislative were under deliberation.
She added that arguments that had arisen between councillors and the city administration during the deliberation had also delayed endorsement of the drafts.
Merry argued that the councillors had been careful in deliberating the drafts for the sake of making sure that people’s aspirations were met.
