TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - State Administrative Law expert Refly Harun questioned the House of Representatives (House) Ethics Council's (MKD) action for dismissing the trial immediately after receiving a resignation letter from Setya Novanto. Refly asserted that the MKD should just continue the trial and deliver the sanction.
"[The MKD's action] is wrong, because the object still exists. Unless Novanto resigned from his position as a member of the House, then [the trial] can be stopped," Refy said.
Regarding Setya Novanto's replacement as the Speaker of the house, Refly said that according to the MD3 Law Setya's replacement should came from the same political party, in this case, the Functional Group Party (Golkar). However, Refly argued that he disagreed with the mechanism.
Meanwhile, Asep Warlan, a State Administrative Law expert from Universitas Parahyangan Bandung, said that although Setya has politically resigned from his position, the resignation still has to be officially stated in a plenary session. "The House will hold a plenary to state that the resignation has been approved," Asep said.
AHMAD FAIZ