Amending the Constitution, GBHN and Presidency
The People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) has denied that there have been proposals for the amendment and discussion of amending Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution.
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The Constitutional Court’s panel of judges presided over by Aswanto (center) holds a hearing on the judicial review of Legislative Bodies Law at the court in Jakarta on 21 Jan. 2020. The plaintiff claimed the lawmaking process breached the prevailing procedures stipulated in the House of Representatives rules. The law was neither listed in the National Legislative Program (Prolegnas) 2015-2019 nor the Priority Prolegnas 2019.
One of the constitutional issues that has emerged recently is the question of an attempt to amend the 1945 Constitution again and include an amendment to Article 7 of the Constitution regarding the term of office of the president.
By all accounts the amendment deals with an effort to change the two-term limit of the office and make it more flexible so that a president can serve more than two terms. The People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) has denied that there have been proposals for the amendment and discussion of amending Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution.