House races against time to pass bills

Members of the House of Representatives’ committees overseeing a number of crucial bills have begun devising alternative ways to speed up the deliberation process and pass the bills into law before their terms end on Sept. 30.
 
The working committee overseeing the Corruption Court bill has decided to tweak the member quorum mechanism, or the minimum number of members required for meetings to take place, to prevent the cancelation of future deliberation sessions.

Internal regulations at the House stipulate that a meeting can only commence if more than half the committee or commission members are in attendance.  

“We will now be using the ‘faction quorum’ mechanism rather than the ‘member quorum’ regulation. That means we only require more than half the factions, not members, to be present during the meetings,” chairman of the working committee for the Corruption Court bill, Arbab Paproeka, told The Jakarta Post on Friday.