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Ada Pertanyaan? Hubungi Kami Rofiq Hidayat, Ali Salmande, Robert Sidauruk
The targeted numbers of bills under the 2013 National Legislation Program (Program Legislasi Nasional/Prolegnas) have not been achieved due to several reasons.
To address this issue, the House of Representative has suggested coming up with breakthrough solutions with legislators keeping a focus on performing their duties despite the upcoming 2014 election.
Marzuki Alie, Speaker of the House admitted to this problem during his speech on Independence Day at the House.
The Speaker contended that based on experience from recent years, there are at least three reasons why the DPR always finds it difficult to achieve the Prolegnas’ targets.
First, discussion on certain draft bills sometimes involves extensive debate on technical issues among lawmakers. This situation is exasperated by the lack of competency and quantity of human resources to support the drafting processes.
The second reason is deadlocks among factions at the House or between the Government and the House. To overcome this issue, the Speaker says that the House has organized consultation meetings to facilitate constructive communication between the opposing parties.
The third reason is the insufficient time allocated to discuss draft bills. Marzuki contends that legislators are often required to perform dual tasks at the same time by his/her fraction and that when this situation arises it is difficult to achieve the minimum quorum requirements to discuss a bill.
Marzuki predicts the situation is not likely to improve in the near future as Indonesia is currently in a so called “political year” coming up to the 2014 election. The current legislators who run for the next DPR election will likely want to spend most of their time in their electoral districts rather than discussing draft bills.
Ahmad Yani, member of Commission III at the House, argues that blame should not be only pointed at the House. To a certain extent, Ahmad continued, the Government’s bureaucratic procedures are also a reason for delays in discussing draft bills.
Furthermore, in order to achieve the Prolegnas’ target, Ahmad suggests a restructuring within the House. By doing so, he believes that the House could perform its duties in a timely and efficient manner.
“For example by dividing the DPR into only three commissions namely, the Legislation Commission, the Supervision Commission, and the Budgeting Commission,” Ahmad Yani says.
On a different occasion, Ronald Rofiandri, Director of Supervision, Advocacy and Networking at the Indonesian Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK), contended that the 2014 election should not be an excuse for lawmakers to lower performance quality.
Ronald further noted that the current legislators have been sworn to perform their duties until the end of their term. During this time, each legislator must focus on discussing and finalizing a number of stalled draft bills.
“The public should not be forced to tolerate the poor performance of legislators merely because Indonesia is currently in a political year,” concludes Ronald.
(hot/kc)
Rofiq Hidayat, Ali Salmande, Robert Sidauruk
The targeted numbers of bills under the 2013 National Legislation Program (Program Legislasi Nasional/Prolegnas) have not been achieved due to several reasons.
To address this issue, the House of Representative has suggested coming up with breakthrough solutions with legislators keeping a focus on performing their duties despite the upcoming 2014 election.
Marzuki Alie, Speaker of the House admitted to this problem during his speech on Independence Day at the House.
The Speaker contended that based on experience from recent years, there are at least three reasons why the DPR always finds it difficult to achieve the Prolegnas’ targets.
First, discussion on certain draft bills sometimes involves extensive debate on technical issues among lawmakers. This situation is exasperated by the lack of competency and quantity of human resources to support the drafting processes.
The second reason is deadlocks among factions at the House or between the Government and the House. To overcome this issue, the Speaker says that the House has organized consultation meetings to facilitate constructive communication between the opposing parties.
The third reason is the insufficient time allocated to discuss draft bills. Marzuki contends that legislators are often required to perform dual tasks at the same time by his/her fraction and that when this situation arises it is difficult to achieve the minimum quorum requirements to discuss a bill.
Marzuki predicts the situation is not likely to improve in the near future as Indonesia is currently in a so called “political year” coming up to the 2014 election. The current legislators who run for the next DPR election will likely want to spend most of their time in their electoral districts rather than discussing draft bills.
Ahmad Yani, member of Commission III at the House, argues that blame should not be only pointed at the House. To a certain extent, Ahmad continued, the Government’s bureaucratic procedures are also a reason for delays in discussing draft bills.
Furthermore, in order to achieve the Prolegnas’ target, Ahmad suggests a restructuring within the House. By doing so, he believes that the House could perform its duties in a timely and efficient manner.
“For example by dividing the DPR into only three commissions namely, the Legislation Commission, the Supervision Commission, and the Budgeting Commission,” Ahmad Yani says.
On a different occasion, Ronald Rofiandri, Director of Supervision, Advocacy and Networking at the Indonesian Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK), contended that the 2014 election should not be an excuse for lawmakers to lower performance quality.
Ronald further noted that the current legislators have been sworn to perform their duties until the end of their term. During this time, each legislator must focus on discussing and finalizing a number of stalled draft bills.
“The public should not be forced to tolerate the poor performance of legislators merely because Indonesia is currently in a political year,” concludes Ronald.
(hot/kc)