2024-09-16 06:13:37
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Legal expert Prof Dr Henry Indraguna, SH Photo: Personal documentation
jpnn.comJAKARTA – Efforts to revive the Supreme Advisory Council (DPA) have become a hot topic of discussion among politicians.
Not a few people call this effort a code to accommodate President Joko Widodo’s interests alone when he is no longer President.
Legal expert Prof. Dr. Henry Indraguna assessed that if referring to the background of the dissolution of the DPA at that time there were several factors. One of them was considered very inefficient.
“The formation of new institutions causes the direction and objectives of the DPA to become unclear. These new institutions have clearer functions, duties, and authorities,” Prof. Henry told reporters, Friday (13/9/2924).
According to Prof. Henry, the elimination of the DPA Institution which is being discussed to be revived like in the New Order era, certainly does not automatically eliminate the function of providing considerations to the president.
Instead, the fourth amendment to the 1945 Constitution changed Article 16 to establish “an advisory council.”
He explained that Article 16 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia regulates that the president forms an advisory council tasked with providing advice and considerations to the president, which is then regulated by law.
“So, the function of the Presidential Advisory Council (Wantimpres) is more technically efficient,” he said.
Legal expert Prof Dr Henry Indraguna responded to the discourse to revive the DPA in the New Order era.
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