The House of Representatives passed President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s controversial government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on job creation on Tuesday despite mounting accusations of attempts to circumvent a previous Constitutional Court’s (MK) ruling regarding the issue.

Jokowi signed in December 2022 the Perppu on job creation to resuscitate the Job Creation Law, which was declared "conditionally unconstitutional" by the MK 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 law-making 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, which must be passed by a House plenary session to become permanent legislation, has secured majority support from Baleg at the end of a two-day meeting between lawmakers and the government in February, with all progovernment parties firmly supporting the government’s decision from the get-go.

Source:
courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by YERICA LAI (THE JAKARTA POST)

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