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The House of Representatives is ready to deliberate the revision of Law No.9/2013 on the prevention and eradication of terrorism this week, a lawmaker has said.
'We will receive the draft bill this week,' House speaker Ade Komarudin said at the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Monday.
On Jan.29, the government completed the draft revision of the antiterrorism bill, which was then submitted to President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo on Monday.
Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said on Friday that it was expected that the House would receive the draft revision of the antiterrorism law within the next three days.
'About 35 percent of contents of the law have been changed,' he said as quoted by Antara news agency at his office.
Luhut said 19 articles of the law were revised during the drafting process while several new articles were added.
An official from the Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Ministry, who wished to remain anonymous, said earlier that one of the main focuses of debate during the drafting process had been about whether passport revocations should be applied to Indonesians who had allegedly joined the Islamic State (IS) movement and committed terrorist attacks.
It has also been reported that several additional articles in the law will allow the use of electronic information to arrest terrorism suspects. It is also expected that law enforcers will be granted the power to collaborate with extraterritorial authorities to arrest people in other countries suspected of being involved in terror activities in Indonesia. (ebf)
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