The Chairman of the MPR emphasized that the inauguration of the Elected President and Vice President would be difficult to prevent

JAKARTA – Chairman of the MPR Bambang Soesatyo (Bamsoet) emphasized the inauguration of the President and Vice President-elect as a result of the 2024 Election, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka very difficult to tackle. Remembering that the regulations in the 1945 NRI Constitution (UUD) which contain the rules for the inauguration of the president and vice president are very clear.

This was in response to a statement by former Supreme Court Justice Gaius Lumbuun who said that the decision of the State Administrative Court (PTUN) could be used as a consideration by the MPR not to inaugurate Prabowo-Gibran as President and Vice President.

“So there is no room to postpone or cancel Prabowo-Gibran’s inauguration because the election is over, the Constitutional Court’s decision and the KPU’s decision on the results of the Presidential Election are clear. The next stage is the inauguration as regulated in Article 9 of the 1945 Constitution. What has been decided by the sovereign people is not anyone can challenge it, including PTUN decisions,” said Bamsoet after meeting members of the MPR Constitutional Study Commission in Jakarta, Friday (10/5/2024).

“In fact, according to the results of the study by the Indonesian MPR Review Body and the MPR Constitutional Study Commission, the elected presidential and vice presidential pair that has been determined by the KPU must be strengthened with a constitutional legal product in the form of an MPR Decree (TAP MPR) without any further debate in the MPR because it is only administrative in nature, ” he continued.

Members of the MPR Constitutional Review Commission who attended included Andi Mattalatta, Rambe Kamarulzaman, and Syamsul Bahri.

Chairman of the 20th DPR and former Chair of Commission III of the DPR for Law, Human Rights and Security, explained that the results of the Constitutional Study Commission’s study were in line with the views and opinions of Constitutional Law Experts Prof. Yusril Izha Mahendra and Prof. Jimly Asshiddiqie. That in exercising its constitutional authority to inaugurate the president and vice president, the MPR needs to issue an MPR TAP concerning the Inauguration of the elected President and Vice President Candidates as President and Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.

This MPR decision is in the nature of a determination (beschikking), not a ruling (regelling) which also confirms the transfer of the legal status of the elected presidential and vice presidential candidates as regulated in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

“This MPR decision is an administrative decision which forms the basis and changes the legal status of the presidential candidate pair and the vice presidential candidate elected as president and vice president of the Republic of Indonesia. The MPR decision regarding the appointment of the president and vice president is a condition sine qua non (must exist) in the series inauguration of the president and vice president,” explained Bamsoet.

The Deputy General Chair of the Golkar Party explained that after the amendment to the 1945 NRI Constitution, there were things that were not in accordance with the 1945 NRI Constitution in terms of procedures for the inauguration of the elected president and vice president. So there is no MPR legal product that determines the elected president and vice president as president and vice president of the Republic of Indonesia.