The Constitutional Court (MK) held hearing on judicial review of Act on Civil Registration Act filed by the Commission for Child Protection (KPAI), Modern Diakonia Campus Foundation, and Elsafan Foundation, and several other independent institutions all of which amounted to 12, Wednesday (19/6). At this meeting the applicant’s attorney delivered the points of improvement in the petition.

Legal Counsel to the Petitioners, Yunita said it had made changes to the advice of the judge at the preliminary hearing. First change the deletion of Article 32 paragraph (1) of the Act as the Population Administration tested norms. "Since it has been decided previously, Article 32 paragraph (1) of the Population Administration we remove," said Yunita.

Besides repair requests occur at points of constitutional harm suffered by the applicant. Points according to Yunita already included in the application.

However, Yunita said his client did not delete the norm in Article 90 of the Law on Population Administration in the petition. The reason, according to Yunita the norms related administrative sanctions are still not clearly stated in the earlier decision of the Court. "Then the administrative sanction fine, because we still put in a previous decision not explicitly disclosed because they have different meanings in society," said Yunita.

At the previous hearing the applicant stated stelsel active lawsuit against the norms contained in some articles in the Law of Civil Affairs. The applicant considers the result of the active principle or basic stelsel for residents to make residents are required to report demographic events and important events that happened to the implementing agencies to meet the necessary requirements in the population registration and civil registration.

"It means that the state does not mandate or obligation to perform active civil registration for residents or citizens. In addition, the impact of the principle of active stelsel for residents is evident from Article 4 of the Act which states Indonesian citizens residing outside the territory of the Republic of Indonesia shall report demographic events and important events that happened to the implementing agency or the local civil registry representative government of the Republic of Indonesia to meet the necessary requirements in the population registration and civil registration. So, it is in-line once in situ. The public or to be active citizens, although citizens are located in areas outside of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia," said Applicant Attorney, Apong at a preliminary hearing that was held on Wednesday (5/6). (Yusti Nurul Agustin)