President Jokowi Should Cancel Budi’s Appointment and Propose New Candidate Collective and Collegial Decision Making in the KPK President’s Prerogative Rights in Police Chief Appointment Government Regulation In Lieu of Law on Immunity Cannot Fix the KPK’s Current Woes Police Must Issue a Warrant to Terminate Investigation (SP3) into Bambang Widjojanto President Jokowi Should…
Legal Policy Which Agency Should Carry On The Duties of The Former National Law Commission? The National Law Commission (KHN), which was established during the reign of President Abdurrahman Wahid through Presidential Decree No. 15 Year 2000, was officially dissolved through Presidential Regulation No. 176 Year 2014 on 4 December 2014. The National Law…
Law Policy Foreign Vessel Sinking Regulation On Friday, December 5, 2014, Indonesian Navy sank down three foreign vessels in Anambas Waters, Riau. Commander of the Western Regions RI Fleet Admiral, Widodo, said that the three foreign vessels could not provide necessary documents and were caught fishing in Indonesian territory on November 2, 2014. All…
House of Regional Representatives DPD’s Initiative to Propose Bill of Persons with Disabilities On 18 November 2014, the House of Regional Representatives (Dewan Perwakilan Daerah/DPD) held a focus group discussion entitled “Urgency of National Lawmaking about People with Disabilities”. During the FGD, the DPD presented their research report about the urgency of People with…
Supreme Court Inauguration of Four New Supreme Court Justices On 21 October 2014, Chief Justice, Hatta Ali, inducted and swore in four new Supreme Court Judges. The four new Supreme Court jusitces area Amran Suadi (Vice Chairman of the Religious High Court of Surabaya), Sudrajat Dimyati (Vice Chairman of the High Court of Pontianak),…
Special Edition on the Local Elections Law Press Release: Local Election Law Controversy: Reject SBY’s Image Salvation Efforts, Handover to Constitutional Court and New Government Jakarta, 30 September 2014; the shocking and disappointing statement from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) towards the decision results on the Local Elections Bill during the House of…
Legal Policy The Enactment of National Standardization Law This week, the House of Representatives enacted the Law on Standardization and Conformity Assessment. Regulating the standardization of goods and services in Indonesia is the concern answered in the new law while the purpose is to protect the economic interests of the industry, government and public. In…
Legal Discourse Forgiveness without Disclosure of the Truth Fadli Zon, Vice Chairman of the Gerindra Party in one occasion stated that the issue of human rights violations is often used as a political weapon against Prabowo Subianto, Chairman of the Gerindra Party. Therefore, still according to Fadli Zon, past cases of human rights violations are…
Supreme Court Court Extends Application of Civil Wrongdoing to Government Officials The Supreme Court (MA) penalized the Corruption Eradication Commission (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi/KPK) to pay 100 million Rupiah for their wrong doing related to the confiscation process of Syarifuddin Umar, former judge, who was convicted for bribery. The decision has two significant implications. First,…