TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The House of Representatives (DPR) will hold an internal meeting before voting for the Financial Service Authority (OJK) Board of Commissioners this afternoon. The meeting will decide the voting mechanism of seven commissioners based on OJK Law.

The DPR has conducted fit and proper test for 12 commissioner candidates, including the position of chairman, deputy chairman, executive director for bank monitoring, executive director for capital market monitoring and audit head. The DPR will later conduct fit and proper test for the post of director for education and consumer protection.

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The selection has been protracted due the debate on the selection mechanism whether to use specialization or clustering system. Earlier, the selection committee proposed 21 names by specializations. The President has since picked 14 names.

Elviana said that the House will elect seven commissioners without any specialization. The DPR will name one chairman, while the unelected one will be included on the list of 13-men candidates. The position and duties of commissioner will be decided at OJK internal meeting.

The United Development Party faction member supported candidate for chairman from industrial background. “If possible, I don’t want [to elect] a person linked to the bureaucracy. The person has to address the duties ‘missing’ in Bank Indonesia.”

DRP’s Finance Commission member Heri Gunawan said that every candidate has to win 50 percent plus one of the 52 commission members. The respective members of faction will hold internal meetings before making a decision. “So far we are still 50:50 whether to elect or return the names.”

PUTRI ADITYOWATI