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One of the Petitioners, Bambang Suroso, in the session for the review of Article 51 paragraph (1) of Act No. 2/2011 on the Amendment of Act 2/2008 on Political Parties, Jakarta (24/3)


Jakarta, MKOnline - The Constitutional Court (The Court) again held a session for the review of Act No. 2/2011 about the Amendment to Act No. 2/2008 on Political Parties which was registered by number 15/PUU-IX/2011, Thursday (24/3) at The Court’s Building. In the session scheduled for verifying revised petition, the Petitioners only proposed Article 51 paragraph (1) on Act on Political Parties as the only article to be reviewed.
 
In the previous session, it was known that the Petitioners consisted of minor political parties without their representatives in the Parliament. They were 1. PPD; 2. PBB; 3. PDS; 4. PKPI; 5. PDP; 6. PPPI ; 7. Patriot Party; 8. PNBKI ; 9. PPI; 10. PMB; 11. Pioneer Party 12. PKDI; 13. New Indonesia Party; 14. PPDI; 15. PKPB; 17. PSI; dan 18. Independent Party. The Petitioners who also the counsels for themselves, among others Suhardi Somomoeljono, Bambang Suroso, Didi Supriyanto, Ratna Ester L Tobing, and Abdurrahman Tardjo. The Petitioners argued that the articles in the Act would prevent the non-parliamentary parties to participate in the 2014 election.
  
In this session, the Petitioners had revised their petition by just proposing only one article to be reviewed, that is Article 51 paragraph (1). “It has to be specified as the justices advised in the previous session, we are also going to make some on-the-spot revision,” said Suhardi.
 
Bambang Suroso, the Petitioners’ other counsel stating that they were intending to attach a letter from the Director General of General Law Administration from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights as subsidiary evidence. The letter was about the information that the participants party with legal entities only needs to attach a notary certificate which is made since the founding of the party.

On that wish, MuhammadAlim as the Chairman allowed the Petitioners to do so. “We can arrange that later, all evidence may be submitted, please do so, we cannot prevent the substantiation. If we legalize today, you can still propose again another day,” explained Akil as he closed the short session (Yusti Nurul Agustin/mh/YDJ) 


Thursday, March 24, 2011 | 21:00 WIB 225