Community Organization Regulation, Good Or Not?

CIDISS – Government Regulation No. 2 of 2017 on amendment to the Community Ordinance still get rejection from the public. This is because of the assumption from community groups that the Perppu will harm the interests of several parties. In fact, in Indonesia itself very many groups are packaged in the form of mass organizations, parties and others are inserted by hidden interests that can disrupt the existence of Pancasila as the ideology of the state of Indonesia.

One of the most prominent parts that has changed in the regulation is the expansion of the definition of the ideology that contradicts Pancasila. In addition, based on the decision, the application of the contrarian principle of actus that allows the government will be easier to impose administrative sanctions in the form of revocation of registered certificate or the revocation of legal entity status for CSOs that are against the Pancasila without going through the judicial process. Coupled with the enforcement of criminal provisions for CSOs, board members and / or its members who are found to be found to have violated the rules in the amendment to Article 59.

Based on this, various opinions were evaporated to the public surface both nationally and internationally. The action is considered as a repressive step by the government to dissolve one of the organizations that are against the Pancasila. In fact, this step is the government’s attempt to save Pancasila from the tight rongrongan radical ideology.

After a lengthy process, the community irganization regulation finally passed into law on Tuesday (24-10-2017) yesterday, the Perppu was passed into law through voting mechanism because all factions in the plenary session failed to reach consensus agreement even though the lobby forum two hours.

Recorded seven factions who received the Perppu as a legislative fraction of PDI-P, PPP, PKB, Golkar, Nasdem, Democrats, and Hanura. However, the PPP, PKB, and Democrat factions accepted the Perppu with a note that the government and the DPR immediately revise the newly enacted Perppu.

The law is intended to summarize the process of applying administrative sanctions against CSOs that commit violations and eliminate judicial decisions that have permanent legal powers in order to provide legality in the case of the dismissal of community organizations. Therefore, the ratification of the Law on CSOs is expected to eliminate the ideologies that could disrupt Pancasila as the ideology of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. (MA)