KPA Challenges Job Creation Law at Constitutional Court

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) on Wednesday announced that it rejects the Job Creation Law in its entirety which had just been passed by the Indonesian parliament (DPR) on Monday, October 5.  

KPA secretary Dewi Kartika on Wednesday, October 7, asserted that it would be filing for judicial review at the Constitutional Court (MK). “The KPA will challenge the law in the Constitutional Court judicial review.”

The KPA, together with community alliances, has been resisting the job creation bill through a number of protests from July up to September this year. 

The consortium also worked together with civil society groups and contested the president’s letter (Surpres) on the job creation bill at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN). The decision to take it for a judicial review comes as a follow up to this. 

Moreover, Dewi Kartika accused the House of Parliaments (DPR) of not being crisis-sensitive by acting against the public’s aspirations and advancing the deadline of the House plenary on the bill from October 8 to 5. 

KPA believed parliament members have ignored the Constitution and 1960 Agrarian Law for the interest of large-scale investment interests and that the job creation law has violated many MK verdicts protecting the livelihood of farmers and common citizens.

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