Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih with Constitutional Justices Saldi Isra and Hakim Manahan M. P. Sitompul held the second judicial review hearing of Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 of Law No. 20 of 2001 on Corruption Eradication, Tuesday (14/5) in the Courtroom of the Constitutional Court. Photo by Humas MK/Ifa.

JAKARTA, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—The Constitutional Court held the second judicial review hearing of Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 of Law No. 20 of 2001 on Corruption Eradication, Tuesday (14/5/2019). The hearing was scheduled for petition revision.

Attorney Janses E Sihaloho explained three outlines of the revision. First, now there is only one Petitioner, president of the Pertamina United Workers Union Federation. "Because, given the articles of association of the organization, the right to represent the organization is at the hands of the president," he explained in Case No. 32/PUU-XVII/2019.

Janses had already studied Constitutional Court decisions similar to the petition. He elaborated and emphasized the differences of the petition from previous cases. "Finally, in the petitum, we changed Pertamina into State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN). This is to fulfill the requirement of erga omnes (for all)," he stressed in the session chaired by Constitutional Justice Enny Nurbaningsih.

Chairman Arie Gumilar and secretary general Dicky Firmansyah of the Pertamina United Workers Union Federation as Petitioners questioned the phrase "Anyone" and "detrimental to the finances of the state or the economy of the state" in Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 of the Anti-Corruption Law. They requested that SOE officials, especially Pertamina, cannot be subject to criminal sanctions if they take actions that could harm state finances. (Arif Satriantoro/LA/Yuniar Widiastuti)