House Passed a Total of 22 New Laws Throughout 2016

 
Marcell Sihombing
 

 

With 2016’s end drawing nearer, all eyes are inevitably turning to the government’s performance over the last 12 months.  A government’s performance is often evaluated by its ability to issue a certain amount of laws, be they entirely new or amendments to existing laws.

This year, the House of Representatives (House) has passed some 22 new laws. Of this total, 20 laws have been approved by the President and have received an official number, with the other two currently awaiting the President’s signature.

The complete list of these new laws is as follows:
 

 
By referring to the list above, the House has passed 10 new laws out of 51 draft bills listed under the 2016 National Legislative Program (Prolegnas), or around 19.6% of its 2016 target.

This is somewhat of an improvement in comparison to implementation of the 2015 Prolegnas, in which the House was only able to pass two laws, namely: (i) Law No. 8 0f 2015 on Amendment to Law No. 1 of 2015 on the Enactment of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law No. 1 of 2014 on the Election of Governors, Regents, and Mayors into Law; and (ii) Law No. 9 of 2015 on Sec0nd Amendment to Law No. 23 of 2014 on Regional Governments.

Of the 22 abovementioned new laws, our Hukumonline English team has selected a handful that are considered to be highly important to a number of business sectors throughout Indonesia. These laws are discussed and analyzed in further detail, and in a concise and readable manner, in several of our daily Indonesian Legal Briefs (ILB) and weekly Indonesian Law Digest (ILD) as listed below:
 

 
The 2017 Prolegnas

Despite the fact that many of the draft bills listed under the 2016 Prolegnas have not yet been passed into law, the Legislation Board (Baleg) at the House has already approved some 49 draft bills for the 2017 Prolegnas. This new list is to be finalized at a Baleg plenary meeting, before being forwarded to the House for final approval.
  
Baleg Deputy, Firman Subagyo, has confirmed that 40 of the above-mentioned 49 draft bills were draft bills which had failed to be passed into law during the 2016 Prolegnas period. The remaining nine draft bills comprise of five new draft bills which have been proposed by the House, three new draft bills which have been proposed by the government, and one new draft bill which has been proposed by the Regional Representatives Council (DPD).

Mr. Subagyo went on to explain that in order to improve its completion rate, Baleg has requested a number of special committees (panitia khusus - Pansus), working committees (Panja), as well as relevant House Commissions to commit themselves to the immediate completion and passage of the draft bills in question.
 
(cd/emj)