A legal expert says President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the House of Representatives must take full responsibility to resolve the scandal around the disappearance of a sub-article in the recently endorsed health law, stipulating that tobacco should be included as an addictive substance.
"The President and the House are the ones making the law based on the mandate of the people," a law expert, Irmanputra Sidin, said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
"They need to make sure that the laws they have agreed to pass are the same as those that reach the public," he added.
Meanwhile, the former chairwoman of the house's health bill special committee, Ribka Tjiptaning, said the committee was not responsible for the missing clause.
"Up until the plenary session, the clause was still there. The clause never went missing,” she said. (hdt)
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