Page 270 - BUKU A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE IN INDONESIA

THE DYNAMICS AND ROLES OF DPR-RI IN IMPROVING THE LIFE OF THE NATION
IN THE REFORMATION ERA (1998-2018)

The two coalitions of parties in the DPR, KMP,
and KIH, in fact, did not last long. After the 2014
Presidential Election was over, there was a shift in “The dynamics of
support from parties that were previously in the
KMP to KIH. PPP since October 2014 had shifted political power in the
its support to the elected President, Joko Widodo. DPR could not help
Less than a year after the transfer of PPP support,
in September 2015, it was PAN’s turn to declare its but slow down the
support for the Government. This of course began implementation of the
to shake the strength of the KMP, because previ-
ously this coalition could control the parliament. supervisory function.
This was due to the
The faltering power of the KMP was really felt in
January 2016. At that time the Golkar Party de- absence of an agreement
clared its support for the Government and then in the national interest
joined the KIH. KIH and the Government previ-
ously only had a minority vote in parliament (37.14 between the two
percent), when compared to the majority KMP coalitions in the DPR at
(47.56 percent). With these transfers, KIH became
the majority with 66.01 percent of the votes in that time.”
parliament. This is of course very beneficial for
the Government because ongoing Government
programs would be more easily approved by the
DPR.

The dynamics of political power in the DPR could not help but slow down
the implementation of the supervisory function. This was due to the ab-
sence of an agreement in the national interest between the two coali-
tions in the DPR at that time. This, for example, occurred during the ab-
sence of ministers and echelon I officials when the Board Fittings invited
meetings in the DPR. In addition, the DPR also had to make adjustments
to partners in several commissions due to changes in the nomenclature
of ministries in the Working Cabinet.

After the dynamics in the parliament subsided, the performance of the
DPR in carrying out its supervisory function began to be seen. This was
reflected in the involvement of the DPR in the selection process for the
appointment of public officials. Such a selection model was also com-
bined with democratic political considerations regarding developing as-
pirations. This selection process put forward the principle of openness,
among others, by announcing the names of candidates for public offi-
cials through the mass media to obtain public responses.

dpr.go.id 263