Low Quality of Legislation in Indonesia (Case Study of the Draft TNI Law)

Abstract

The low quality of legislation in Indonesia (one of which) is reflected in the process of passing the TNI Bill, which the Civil Society Coalition claims did not involve public participation—even its formulation was conducted behind closed doors at the Fairmont Hotel. Overall, the process of passing the TNI Bill did not meet the four criteria/activities that determine the quality of future legislative processes, namely: the quality of the National Legislation Program (Prolegnas) as a strategic planning instrument, the quality of academic papers as an epistemological foundation, the quality of bill discussions encompassing public participation and norm harmonization, and legislative evaluation to test implementation effectiveness. Stemming from this issue, this paper aims to design an innovative solution to improve the quality of legislation in Indonesia by strengthening public participation through online petition-based mechanisms, adapting best practices from South Korea. The results of the analysis show that Indonesia already has online petitions available on theChange.orgplatforms. Thus, this paper seeks to optimize existing online petitions by following the layout ofChange.org.