The Legislation Body at the House of Representatives is becoming stronger as a producer of laws. A service for the government through the legal route.

The House of Representatives' procedural regulations give it the authority to evaluate public officials. This is a sign of a move towards competitive authoritarianism.

The House of Representatives’ Ethics Council is examining several critical House members. The verification process of the reports appears questionable.

The contest for the selection of the Supreme Court Chief Justice is heating up. There are indications it is riddled with the interests of the government and tycoons.

With old faces still occupying more than half the seats, can DPR members be trusted to speak up and truly represent the people’s voice?

Using a variety of pretexts, the political parties replace elected legislative candidates. This is a betrayal of the people’s choice.

The DPR rejected all candidates for Supreme Court and ad hoc human rights justices put forward by the Judicial Commission. There needs to be transparency in the selection process.

Commission III of the House of Representatives rejected all the Supreme Court judge candidates proposed by the Judicial Commission. The rejection allegedly was due to their favored candidate failed to pass.

Several political parties conspired to approve candidates for the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) membership. Corrupt candidates could be selected.

Police act excessively in handling the demonstrations nationwide in support of the Constitutional Court decision. Where are the President and Vice President?

During his two terms in office, Jokowi is suspected of weakening the executive oversight institutions. The parties follow his lead without reservation.

Summary of events of the week, from the People’s Tribunal trying Jokowi to the nine years sentence for former Pertamina CEO Karen Agustiawan.

Constitutional Court’s Ethics Council Chair I Dewa Gede Palguna on his stance rejecting a revision to the Constitutional Court Law.

Prospective legislators need to spend large amounts of money to garner votes in increasingly transactional elections. A simpler system is needed.

The right of inquiry to investigate alleged fraud in the 2024 elections is threatened to run aground in the House of Representatives (DPR), influenced by offers of ministerial seat in Prabowo’s cabinet.

The massive scale of money politics resulted in the 2024 general elections being deemed to be the most brutal. Many incumbents failed to retain their DPR seats.

Jokowi is taking Indonesia right back to the start of the Reformasi era. The right of inquiry could be a way to save democracy.

The suspicions of fraud in the presidential election are strong enough for the DPR to exercise its right of inquiry. The party elites will face the test of history.

Indonesia’s financial market sentiment will be rocked by DPR’s initiative to execute its right of inquiry. Rice inflation is another serious threat.

President Joko Widodo still has not submitted the name of KPK’s new chairman to replace Firli Bahuri to the DPR. The effect of a shattered government coalition.