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View all search resultsThe quality of Indonesia’s lawmaking is under growing scrutiny. The skyrocketing number of judicial review petitions should serve as a wake-up call to reform the legislative process. Meaningful public participation, in particular, remains a crucial element that must be strengthened to ensure laws are drafted with prudence, accountability and constitutional soundness.
At least 10 judicial review petitions against the new Criminal Code (KUHP) and Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) have been filed with the Constitutional Court within four days after the new laws came into force.
Civil groups and students plan to challenge the new Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) Law at the Constitutional Court, citing alleged “manipulation” of public input during the deliberation by lawmakers.
Constitutional Court justices granted a judicial review petition against the Job Creation Law, allowing agricultural activities for indigenous communities in forest areas to fulfill daily needs, not commercial purposes.
Four of nine Constitutional Court justices filed dissenting opinions against the ruling, with Chief Justice Suhartoyo acknowledging that deliberations for the controversial law revision did not involve meaningful public participation, but instead featured closed-door meetings in places inaccessible to the public.
In a single hearing on Wednesday, the Constitutional Court threw out five petitions for a judicial review of the TNI Law reivision passed in March, challenging the legislative process as rushed and lacking transparency.
At a Constitutional Court hearing, House of Representatives lawmakers and government ministers asked the justices to drop judicial review petitions against the recently revised Indonesian Military (TNI) Law, arguing that the plaintiffs lack a legal standing.
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