Record of Attendance of House of Representatives Members in Plenary Sessions 2018-2019 and 2019-2020

The attendance of Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) members from 2014-2019 in plenary sessions remains a concern, as plenary sessions are a strategic forum for the DPR to make decisions. In plenary sessions (rapur) of the fifth session of the 2018-2019 parliamentary year and the first session of the 2019-2020 parliamentary year, the Indonesian Parliament Watchdog Forum (Formappi) still found discrepancies between recorded attendance and the actual situation on the ground.

During the fifth session of the 2018-2019 parliamentary year (opening of the session on May 8, 2019, to closing on July 25, 2019), three plenary sessions appeared to meet the quorum, but the facts on the ground indicated otherwise. On May 28, 2019, 291 out of 560 DPR members were recorded as present, meeting the quorum of 58.2%. However, Formappi found that only 81 members were actually present.

The same occurred on July 4, 2019. The plenary session appeared to meet 53.21% of the total DPR membership, but in reality, only 67 members were present. Furthermore, in the plenary session on July 16, 2019, 305 members were recorded as present. However, 220 of these members were on leave but still counted as present, thus fulfilling the quorum.

Similarly, during the first session of the 2019-2020 parliamentary year, the same issue occurred. In the plenary session on September 17, 2019, 289 members were recorded as present. In fact, only 80 members were present. The DPR repeated this in the following plenary session, with only 70 members present, despite records showing 288 members present, meeting the quorum of 51.43%.

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