JAKARTA: The Constitutional Court will proceed with the judicial review petition filed against the executive order on the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic response as it has summonsed President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and the House of Representatives to the hearing next week as witnesses.
The hearing, scheduled to take place at 10am on Wednesday, will listen to testimonies from the President and the House as the executive and legislative parties involved in the passing of a regulation in lieu of law, Perppu No. 1/2020, which grants the government the authority to allocate emergency coronavirus spending.
The Perppu allows the government to extend the state budget deficit beyond the legal cap of 3 percent of gross domestic product and allocate the spending to programs related to Covid-19, while officials are protected from any legal charges as long as they act “in good will and according to the law”. “We, as members of the public, need an explanation as to why it is necessary for a Perppu on Covid-19 to include impunity for state officials, ” he said referring to Article 27, which activists have strongly criticized for granting impunity to officials caught misappropriating state funds.
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