Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat chairing the formal and material judicial review hearing of Law No. 3 of 2022 on the State Capital (IKN Law) for case No. 39/PUU-XX/2022, Monday (5/9/2022). Photo by Humas MK/BPE.

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Monday, May 9, 2022 | 14:11 WIB

JAKARTA, Public Relations—The Constitutional Court (MK) held another formal and material judicial review hearing of Law No. 3 of 2022 on the State Capital (IKN Law) on Monday, May 9, 2022. The case No. 39/PUU-XX/2022 was filed by Sugeng, a retired employee of the Audit Board (BPK).

At the hearing chaired by Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat, the Petitioner conveyed the revisions to the petition following the justices’ advise at the previous hearing—with regard to the Court’s authority, the Petitioner’ legal standing, and the background to the petition.

“The Court’s authority, the [Petitioner’s] legal standing have been drawn up and the background is divided into two—the formal and material judicial review. The material judicial review is also divided into two, in terms of substance where it does not elaborate article by article, while the other elaborate important article by article and is correlated with the substance of Law No. 3 of 2022 on the State Capital (IKN),” he said virtually before the Court.

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At the preliminary hearing on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, the Petitioner argued that the formation of the IKN Law had violated lawmaking principles and been hasty and a mere formality in addition to lacking public participation.

Meanwhile, for the material judicial review, he argued that the state was in a direr need of funding to weather COVID-19 pandemic than to relocate the state capital. He also added that the state budget should be utilized for paying debts, to mitigate natural resources, to renew its primary weaponry defense system (alutsista), for education, and for the election. asserted that the capital’s relocation to Kalimantan would potentially damage the environment and the life of fauna and flora. A number of BUMN (state-owned enterprises) would suffer losses or issues, he argued. Therefore, he argued, the Government should focus on improving the people’s welfare and on national development. Thus, he requested that the Court revoke the IKN Law.  

Writer        : Utami Argawati.
Editor        : Nur R.
PR            : Tiara Agustina
Translator  : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 5/9/2022 15:02 WIB

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian versions, the Indonesian version will prevail.

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