Constitutional Court Considers Summoning Police Reform Commission on Police Law Challenge

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Constitutional Court (MK) is considering summoning the Police Reform Acceleration Commission (KPRP) to hear its testimony regarding the material review of Law No. 2 of 2002 on the Indonesian National Police (Polri).

“Actually, we from the panel have already decided to summon the Police Reform Acceleration Commission team,” said MK Chief Justice Suhartoyo during the hearing of case number 63/PUU-XXIV/2026, with the agenda of hearing testimony from the DPR and the President at MK Building I, Jakarta, on Wednesday.

According to Suhartoyo, the decision to summon was discussed before the KPRP team submitted its report or recommendations to the President because, in the panel’s view, the substance of the requested case is related to that KPRP team report.

“Yesterday when we decided this, the report had not yet been submitted to the President,” he said.

Therefore, he continued, to confirm the summoning of the KPRP team, it will still be decided in a constitutional judges’ meeting held after the hearing.

Suhartoyo mentioned that the application was submitted by the National Police Chief, and the hearing to listen to Polri’s testimony is scheduled for Wednesday (3/6) at 10:30 WIB.

Meanwhile, the hearing for the applicants’ expert submission has not yet been scheduled.

“For this application, there might not be any for the applicants to propose experts yet. Because we from the panel of judges will still listen to the Polri institution itself, which has submitted itself as a related party proposed by the National Police Chief,” he said.

The judges also scheduled a follow-up hearing on the Polri Law to hear or receive additional testimony from the DPR and the President on the same day as the examination from Polri.

The material review requested by these five lawyers questions the existence of Polri under the President and asks the MK to change it to be under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

In their application, the applicants request that the MK declare Article 8 paragraph (1) of the Polri Law to be contrary to the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and to have no binding legal force.

The applicants believe that the existence of Polri directly under the president has the potential for discrimination, especially for advocates defending the opposition or those opposing the government, which will be treated differently from advocates defending the government.

In Wednesday’s hearing, the constitutional court panel has heard testimony from the DPR and the President regarding the material review of the Polri Law.