Jokowi Must Work Hard to Improve Job Creation Law: Legal Expert

jpnn.com, JAKARTA - Legal expert Yusril Ihza Mahendra has commented on the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK), which declared Law Number 11/2020 concerning Job Creation "unconstitutional".

MK also stated that the Job Creation Law did not have binding legal force conditionally, as decided in Jakarta, Thursday (25/11).

In response to this, Yusril assessed that the Joko Widodo administration must work hard to improve the Job Creation Law.

"If within two years the law is not revised, the law will automatically become permanently unconstitutional," Yusril said in his statement.

The former State Secretary also reminded the President that if it was not corrected within two years, all laws that had been revoked due to the Job Creation Law would automatically apply again.

"This can obviously lead to legal chaos," he said.

Yusril explained that MK in its decision prohibited the government from issuing implementing regulations for the Job Creation Law other than the existing ones.

It has also prohibited the government from taking new policies that have a broad impact based on the Job Creation Law as long as the law is not revised.