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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Exposit Strategy political analyst Arif Susanto noted the speech revision Constitution of information and electronic transaction (UU ITE) emerged only as an imaging tool government.
This suspicion arose because according to Arif, the idea of revising the ITE Law was raised amidst various criticisms from within the country and internationally. One of the most recent, a survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that Indonesia’s democracy index has declined.
Indonesia ranks 64th out of 167 countries in the world. The drop in the democracy index coincided with the emergence of various criticisms of the public’s freedom of opinion at home.
“We deserve to be suspicious of President Jokowi’s statement on the importance of revising the ITE Act as a political image tool, why, because previously there was international attention and public criticism that almost showed that the government could not make good achievements, Arif said in a virtual debate ‘Revision of the ITE Law: After the fall of the victims’, Friday (2/19).
Arif also detailed that there were at least two critics from the international community that Jokowi could consider looking for ways to secure his image.
In addition to the report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which states that Indonesia’s democracy index has recorded the lowest score in the last 14 years, there is also the Indonesian Corruption Perception Index (IPK), which also it is down to 102 out of 180 countries.
“If we ask, what achievements the government has been able to be proud of in the last month and a half, almost nothing. There are even criticisms,” Arif said.
At the time, Arif also suspected that the news of the revision of the ITE Act was only part of the political barter. It evaluated that there is the possibility that the revision of the ITE Law will transfer other bills that have been confirmed to be included in the 2021 Priority National Legislation Program (Prolegnas).
“We must be concerned that the planned revision of the ITE Law will become part of the political barter. We must also be aware that there is a possibility that if the revision of the ITE Law is included in the Prolegnas, it is not impossible that others The bills that are included in the prolegnas will be eliminated, “he said.
Arif also suspects that there is a possibility that the bill that has been registered in the Prolegnas Priority 2021 has the potential to threaten the popularity of the government. Although he did not mention which bill was deemed threatening.
“So I doubt that the government will seriously review the ITE Law,” he said again.
The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) also suspected that the revision of the ITE Law was a mere part of the images.
KontraS believes that the news of the revision of the ITE Law appears only to save the image of the government because many times they criminalize critical persons by force.
 Infographic on how a regime responds to criticism. (CNN Indonesia / Basith Subastian) |
Previously, President Jokowi through his speech expressed his intention to revise the ITE Law if it is found that this law does not provide a sense of justice.
“If the ITE Law does not provide a sense of justice, I will ask DPR to jointly review this law,” Jokowi said on the Presidential Secretariat’s YouTube channel on Monday (2/15).
But so far, the speech has never ended.
Jokowi briefly instructed the Minister of Law and Human Rights, Yasonna Laoly, to prepare a review of Law Number 19 of 2016 regarding the amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 that contained ITE.
But on the other hand, the idea also came up in the form of drafting an official interpretation of the Jokowi ITE Law. Several experts have questioned the legal soundness of the guidelines to interpret the article of the ITE Law.
(millions / nma)
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