Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly Opens e-Aspiration Channel, Invites Public Input on Constitutional Review
The People’s Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia (MPR RI) is opening up space for broad public participation in the ongoing constitutional review process. The e-Aspiration Constitution channel remains open to receive public input online.
“We are ready to listen to, receive, and accommodate all input from the public. This is not merely a ceremonial gathering, but a joint effort to ensure the constitution does not remain just a normative text,” said Deputy Speaker of the MPR RI, Lestari Moerdijat, in a statement on Tuesday (15/9/2026).
Rerie, as Lestari is familiarly known, acknowledged that the presence of academics has been a breath of fresh air amid challenges to public trust in state institutions.
“We must honestly admit that the institution that should be the pillar safeguarding the constitution is in fact at the bottom of public trust surveys. Therefore, the presence of all of you represents a strategic moment to demonstrate that the MPR is ready to listen to and accommodate all input,” Rerie asserted.
She explained that the constitutional aspiration channel now in operation was designed by the MPR RI to capture the public’s ideas, not merely political recommendations.
According to her, the MPR RI’s Constitutional Studies Commission is striving to ensure that all incoming aspirations can be examined and placed in accordance with its recommendations.
“Public aspirations serve an important corrective function. Through these aspirations, state institutions can capture voices, needs, and perspectives that may not yet have been conveyed,” Rerie explained.
She is targeting the entire review and aspiration-gathering process to be completed within the next six months, so that a full report can be delivered to the public in early 2027.
She stressed that this review is not only about short-term political interests, but is part of strengthening constitutional democracy in Indonesia.
Rerie expressed hope that this forum would become a joint endeavour to keep Indonesia on the path of constitutional democracy, uphold a just state, and realise prosperity for all citizens.
“The constitution must always live in the consciousness of citizens, operate in every institution, be present in public policy, and respond to citizens’ needs. Our meeting today is important to ensure exactly that,” she concluded.
The meeting was attended by, among others, Charles Simabura, Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies (Pusako) at Andalas University; Taufik Basari, Chair of the MPR RI’s Constitutional Studies Commission; and 80 participants of the IX National Conference on Constitutional Law.