The Constitutional Court (MK) held another trial on judicial review of Act 8 of 1981 on Criminal Code on Wednesday (31/10) at the Plenary Court. Case was registered by the Registrar of the Court with this 98/PUU-X/2012 number filed by Boyamin and Supriyadi as a member of Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI).

In a plea hearing improvement, Boyamin as Petitioner did request repairs, including improving legal status (legal standing). Applicant requests that the original change to the position of the law as individual citizens to non-governmental organizations. "Legal standing of an individual applicant as they relate pretrial ruling on behalf of NGOs included the NGO's petition on behalf of the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society. We will be trouble if using legal standing as citizens. So we fix this petition wear NGOs legal standing as private legal entities and we've attached certificate of incorporation, attachment AD / ART and others," said Boyamin.

Constitutional judges, chaired by Hamdan Zoelva, accompanied by Maria Farida Indrati and Mohammed Alim and validate the evidence submitted by the applicant. "You filed a proof P1-P16 and validated. Civil Applicant preliminary hearing is completed will be brought to the consultative meeting to decide what the trial judge will be forwarded to the plenary to hear the testimony of witnesses and the government or the Court will decide the case immediately. Brother just waiting for the call from the Court," said Hamdan.

Petitioners in case 98/PUU-X/2012 reviewed Article 79 of the Act. According to Petitioner, the enactment of the article has impaired his constitutional rights. Therefore, the petitioners have repeatedly filed pretrial matters of corruption as interested third parties as outlined in the legislation. However, submissions are not accepted for reasons not interested third parties. On the other hand, the right to sue as interested third parties has not stipulated in the law, and there are provisions that limit the space for the applicant to participate in the prevention and fight against corruption and law enforcement. Therefore, said the applicant, the acid test in this application is Article 1 Paragraph (3), Article 28D paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution. (Lulu Anjarsari / mh/Yazid.tr)