Panel hearing of petition revision of the judicial review of the MD3 Law on Tuesday (15/5) in the Plenary Courtroom of the Constitutional Court. Photo by Humas MK/Ganie.

The petition revision hearing for the judicial review of Law No. 2/2018 on the People\'s Consultative Assembly, House of Representatives, Regional Representatives Council, and Regional Legislative Council (MD3 Law) will be held again by the Constitutional Court on Tuesday (15/5) afternoon.

The Petitioners’ legal counsel, Ayu Eza Tiara, submitted a number of revisions to the petition of Case No. 34/PUU-XVI/2018. The revisions include describing the articles being reviewed in more details. In addition, the Petitioners included Law No. 8/2011 on the Constitutional Court.

"And then revising the legal standing of the Petitioners as a legal entity, and describing it in more details. Further, in relation to the Petitioners’ arguments, we have [capitalized them]. [We] also combined the petitum, originally four, into three," Ayu explained.

The Congress of Indonesian Unions Alliance (KASBI), the Confederation of Indonesia Prosperity Trade Union (KSBSI), and the Indonesian Labor Union Confederation (KPBI) review several articles of the MD3 Law, namely Article 73, Article 122 letter l, and Article 245. The Petitioners argued that the subpoena by the House of Representatives violates the right to equality before the law, as mandated in Article 27 paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution. In addition, the Petitioners believe that there was a vacuum of law in the revision of the MD3 Law that potentially violates the right to protection and fair legal certainty as mandated in Article 28B paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution. The Petitioners requested that the MD3 Law be declared valid only for the House of Representatives, instead of involving the police as well as the general public. (Nano Tresna Arfana/Yuniar Widiastuti)