Sunday, 20 October 2019, during his inauguration speech, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) revealed a “new” initiative to form the omnibus law. In fact, the omnibus law is not just a name, but a method of forming a regulation.
To understand more about this method, the Law Study Program, President University (PresUniv), held a webinar "Omnibus Law sebagai Metode Pembentukan Peraturan Perundang-undangan Indonesia", Saturday (20/2).
This webinar presents Prof. Dr. Satya Arinanto, SH, MH, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia, who is also the Special Staff of the Indonesian Vice President for Law, as speaker and guided by Dr. Dra. Fennieka Kristianto, S.H., M.H., M.A., M.Kn, Head of Law Study Program, PresUniv.
Prof. Satya emphasized that the omnibus law is not new in Indonesia. “From 1819 to 1949, the Dutch colonial government enforced seven thousand regulations, which after 1949 were simplified to 400 regulations. This is actually an omnibus law, but at that time there was no such term,” he said.
According to Prof. Satya, currently the omnibus law is the best method to simplify and change regulations to keep pace with the times. "In the future, all regulations can be changed by this method. Because if they change them one by one it will take a long time,” he added. He said, there were still differences of opinion and political views among experts regarding the omnibus law.
At the end of the webinar, Prof. Satya asked the participants to read in detail the regulations that had been simplified by the omnibus law method, including those that could potentially be omnibus-lawed. "This can be an interesting research topic," he concluded.
