WORKING Committee (Panja) for Limited Revision on Act No. 32/2004 on Regional Government (Pemda) agreed that the disputes over Regional Election to be settled in the Constitutional Court (MK).

That was done to concur with the Act No. 22/2007 on General Election Performance. A member of the Committee, Ida Fauziah said, in the Act, the Regional Election was considered the regional election as part of the general election regime. Because it has been a regime, every dispute concerning the regional election should be settled in the Constitutional Court. ”in Act No. 22/2007, every dispute is settled in the Constitutional Court. The decision is made so that there is no friction between Acts,” said former Head of National Awakening Fraction (FKB) in the House of Representatives Building yesterday.

Another member of the Working Committee, Suparlan, said that the Constitutional Court was yet ready to carry out the stipulation. ”Because of that, we will put in Transitional Provisions,” said the member of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle Fraction. Suparlan emphasized, with the existence of the Transitional Provisions, The Constitutional Court had some time to prepare the infrastructure.

The member of Commission II of the House of the Representatives stated that the Constitutional Court needed to prepare the infrastructure because so far it had no experience in handling such disputes that when the stipulation was applied, the Constitutional Court was ready. ”So far, the Constitutional Court only deals with the disputes over General Election,” he added. (ahmad baidowi)

Source: HU Seputar Indonesia, Saturday, 15/03/2008

Translated by: Yogi Djatnika (MKRI)