Commission III of the House of Representatives Immediately Distributing Constitutional Judges Arief Hidayat

Jakarta – Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission III Ahmad Sahroni said his party would immediately revise the replacement of constitutional judges Arief Hidayat, which would soon retire in February 2026. Sahroni said the DPR will choose one candidate to replace arrief. “(Selected) one person,” Sahroni said in the parliamentary complex, Senayan, Jakarta, on Tuesday (8/19/2025). Browse to continue the content, Sahroni said that his party will take a feasibility test and appropriateness or fit and proper test for the prospective judge. But Sahroni did not mention the mechanism used to declare the candidate or not. “Later, fit and proper (test) times, maybe tomorrow if I’m not wrong,” Sahroni said. Furthermore, this Nasdem Bendum hopes that the replacement of Judge Arief may be better than before. He said more or less in the performance of tasks is common. “(The Hope) is better, Mr. Arief is good, yes, later it will be better. More, less, minus yes normal,” he concluded. Judge Arief Hidayat will be retired on February 3, 2026. At the time, Arief was even 70 years old. This retirement determination as regulated in section 23 of the Act number 7 of 2020 regarding the Constitutional Court, which regulates the constitutional judge, is dismissed one of them because it is 70 years old. In section 26 of the Constitutional Court Act, which is clarified in section 6, paragraph 2 of the Constitutional Court Regulation Number 4 of 2012, the Constitutional Court must notify the proposal institution no later than six months before the judge is 70 years old, or the end of his term of office. Watch the video ‘DPR fits immediately and proper test replacement for Judge MK Arief Hidayat’: (AMW/MAA)