Annisa Febiola, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Puan Maharani announced the decision to expand the number of commissions within the DPR from 11 to 13.
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October 14, 2024
October 12, 2024
Haryanti Puspa Sari, Icha Rastika, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) suspects that the new policy of providing a housing allowances to House of Representatives (DPR) members fo
October 10, 2024
Jakarta – Parliamentary watchdog Forum of Concerned Citizens for Indonesia's Parliament (Formappi) researcher Lucius Karus considers it strange that the House of Representatives (DPR) h
October 7, 2024
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives (DPR) who reside in the official state housing complexes have been given until the end of this month to vacate their res
Jakarta – Every member of the House of Representatives (DPR) can be entitled to Rp 70 million ($4,451) in house allowance per month as the official residential complex will be fully vac
October 4, 2024
Yustinus Patris Paat, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives (DPR) for the 2024-2029 term will no longer be provided with official residences.
Haryanti Puspa Sari, Icha Rastika, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says that 354 out of the 580 new members of the House of Representatives (DPR) for the 2024-2029 period are
Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – A researcher from Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), Yassar Aulia, asserted that a high number of the House of Representatives (DPR) members implicated in corru
October 3, 2024
Jakarta – Smiling faces were all that marked the inauguration of the 580 House of Representatives members for the 2024-2029 term on Tuesday. Forget the Feb.
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Ahmad Muzani, Secretary-General of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), was officially appointed as the Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The newly inaugurated House of Representatives members will have 13 commissions, two more than the previous term, to accommodate the planned cabinet expansion u
October 2, 2024
Thomas Rizal, Jakarta – The public is closely watching the performance of celebrity lawmakers in the newly inaugurated 2024-2029 House of Representatives (DPR), as 25 entertainers, incl
October 1, 2024
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) passed 225 drafts into laws during its 2019-2024 term, a significant increase compared to the 91 laws passed by the 2014-2019
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Jamaludin Malik, a newly elected member of the House of Representatives (DPR) from the Golkar Party, arrived in an Ultraman superhero costume ahead of the swear
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – A total of 580 members of the House of Representatives (DPR) and 152 members of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) for the 2024-2029 period will be swor
September 30, 2024
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) will retain Puan Maharani as the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the next five years, a party ex
Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has named Romy Soekarno a member of the House of Representatives for the 2024-2029 term after two elected members from the Indonesian De
Teguh Adi Prasetyo, Jakarta – More than half of the 580 elected House of Representatives members are newcomers who will be part of a parliament where seven of eight incumbent parties ha
September 25, 2024
Nandito Putra, Petir Garda B, Jakarta – The Indonesia Parliament Watch (Formappi) notes that 79 elected legislative candidates for the House of Representatives 2024-2029 are affiliated
September 8, 2024
Muhammad Fakhruddin, Jakarta – The long-anticipated asset forfeiture bill will not be passed into law by the current House of Representatives despite mounting pressure from President Jo
August 30, 2024
Aryo Putranto Saptohutomo, Jakarta – The discourse on the House of Representatives (DPR) immediately passing the Draft Law on Asset Seizures (RUU Perampasan Aset) is seen as a counterat
August 27, 2024
Aditya Pratama, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Celebrities continue to captivate voters, making them prime candidates for political parties to endorse in legislative elections.
August 26, 2024
Novali Panji Nugraha, Jakarta – The Chair of the Legislative Body of the House of Representatives (DPR) of Indonesia, Wihadi Wiyanto, said the DPR Legislative Body will suspend the disc
August 21, 2024
Made Supriatma – The unprecedentedly long interim between Indonesia's election and the new government's inauguration has allowed the outgoing president and Parliament unusual leeway to
August 16, 2024
Jakarta (Agencies) – President-elect Prabowo Subianto has secured a majority at the House of Representatives after the party that backed his rival in the February elections announced it
July 28, 2024
Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) was officially ousted from the House of Representatives for the first time since the party's founding after failing to meet the threshold in
July 17, 2024
Nicholas Ryan Aditya, Ihsanuddin, Jakarta – Forum of Concerned Citizens for Indonesia's Parliament (Formappi) researcher Lucius Karus suspects that the House of Representatives (DPR) is
July 11, 2024
Nirmala Maulana Achmad, Aryo Putranto Saptohutomo, Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Director Muhammad Isnur has questioned why a Presidential Letter (Surpres) on the Dr
July 3, 2024
Thomas Rizal, Jakarta – Political analyst from Al Azhar University Indonesia Ujang Komarudin criticized Adang Daradjatun, Chair of the DPR Ethics Council (MKD), for not disclosing the n
July 1, 2024
Djibril Muhammad, Hendro Dahlan Situmorang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Ethics Council (MKD) is under pressure to promptly disclose the full names of lawmakers involved in o
June 12, 2024
Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has not held any internal discussions regarding the latest proposal to amend the 1945 Constitution, a party executive has said, despite recent st
May 29, 2024
Nur Janti, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has moved one step closer to revising four laws governing the police, the Indonesian Military (TNI), immigration and the presidential c
May 27, 2024
Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – The House of Representatives plans to accelerate the law-making process of several controversial bills during the lame-duck period before its term ends on
May 20, 2024
Simon Butt – During an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha last week, Indonesia's president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, was asked to respond to concerns that democracy would furt
April 4, 2024
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) will retain the speakership of the House of Representatives based on internal rules that award the position
March 28, 2024
Anisa Fauziah, Jakarta – A member of the task force that is in charge of promoting the Job Creation Law recently claimed that domestic workers were actually the ones who benefited the m
Vinnilya, Jakarta – Senior economist Chatib Basri said that the ministries as well as sub-national governments need to work together when it comes to the Job Creation Law, arguing that
March 27, 2024
Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – A prominent economist said on Wednesday that the full implementation of the job creation law could potentially elevate investments and drive economic grow
Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – The job creation law, which harmonizes dozens of regulations concerning investments, takes years for its full and ideal implementation and therefore must
March 25, 2024
Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – It is by far the least powerful job among the country's highest state political institutions, but for the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P),
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) asserted on Monday its right to retain the speakership in the House of Representatives after securing the mo
March 13, 2024
Defara Dhanya Paramitha, Jakarta – Several legal aid associations for women and domestic workers have implored the House of Representatives (DPR) to expeditiously pass the bill on the p
Yerica Lai, Jakarta – Political parties behind presumptive presidential election winner Prabowo Subianto appear to have distanced themselves from a potential race to capture the House o
March 5, 2024
Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives or DPR held its first plenary meeting after the 2024 general elections on Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
February 12, 2024
Eve Warburton, Edward Aspinall, Diego Fossati, Burhanuddin Muhtadi & Sally White – Most domestic and international commentary on Indonesia's 14 February elections has focused on the
November 10, 2023
Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) encouraged the creation of a bill to address the issue of food waste and food loss.
October 5, 2023
Jakarta – Article 42 in the recently enacted revisions to the State Capital Law (IKN Law) has been criticised for confusing the legal structure and conflicting with a number of existing
October 3, 2023
Sabrina Asril, Jakarta – A House of Representatives (DPR) plenary meeting on Thursday September 29, 2022, agreed to remove Constitutional Court (MK) justice Aswanto, even though his ten
October 2, 2023
Jakarta – A top court in Indonesia on Monday rejected a petition to review a controversial pro-investment law passed earlier this year that labour and environmental groups have said is
Jakarta – The Constitutional Court delivered a decisive ruling on Monday, rejecting a motion by labor unions aimed at annulling a government regulation in lieu of the job creation law,