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Gerindra to push for voting on continuation of KPK Law revision
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A show of support: A coffin emblazoned with the message, “Revise the [Corruption Eradication Commission] KPK Law” is seen after being sent to the antigraft body’s headquarters in South Jakarta on Oct. 20, 2015. The Gerindra Party faction will call for voting to decide on the continuity of the deliberation on a draft revision of the 2002 KPK Law. (Kompas/Ambaranie Nadia KM)
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he Gerindra Party is striving to ensure that the continuity of deliberation on a draft revision of the 2002 Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law is decided through a voting mechanism, a lawmaker has said.
“We will call for voting to show the public that we are consistent regarding the KPK Law revision. This is not about how we can get compliments from the public or anything else. It’s all about our principle [on the law revision],” a House of Representatives member from the Gerindra Party faction, Supratman Andi Agtas, said on Wednesday.
He made the statement in response to the House’s plan to hold a plenary meeting on Thursday to decide on the fate of the law amendment.
Gerindra, the Democratic Party and Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), have opposed deliberating the law amendment.
Supratman said that House members may hold different stances than their party factions.
“Several political party factions at the House have supported the amendment while the factions’ members do not have a similar stance. We hope they are aware of that,” the lawmaker said.
As three factions have opposed deliberating the draft revision, only seven House factions are supporting the amendment to proceed further.
They are the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the Hanura Party, the Golkar Party, the National Awakening Party (PKB), the National Mandate Party (PAN), the United Development Party (PPP) and the NasDem Party.
The House Legislation Body (Baleg) commenced discussion on the law amendment on Feb.1 in a hearing, during which it listened to explanations from supporters of the amendment.
Baleg has not decided on when it will form a working committee (Panja) on the law amendment since delaying the formation of the committee in the Feb.1 hearing.
Among points in the amendment are wiretapping procedures, the existence of a KPK supervisory committee, rules on KPK investigators, and the committee’s authority to issue investigation termination warrants (SP3).
Stay confident
The PDI-P faction was confident that its members would stay firm in supporting the law amendment on Thursday.
"We, the PDI-P faction members, are solid. Several other factions are solid as well. Each faction has appointed a representative," Risa Mariska, one of the 15 amendment supporters from the PDI-P faction, said in the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday.
Forty-five House members support the amendment of the law. Aside from 15 members of the PDI-P faction, there are 11 members of the NasDem faction, nine members of the Golkar faction, five members of the PPP faction, three members of the Hanura faction and two members of the PKB faction who support the law amendment.
The amendment of the law is listed as one of priority bills in the 2016 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas). The House has 40 priority bills in the Prolegnas 2016 that must complete deliberation this year. (ebf)
