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Fire breaks out at Law and Human Rights Ministry building
It was not immediately clear if there were any injuries in the blaze. The South Jakarta fire department has not given any details on what caused the fire.
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A screen grab of a video showing fire breaking out at the Law and Human Rights Ministry building on Dec. 8. (The Jakarta Post/TvOne)
It was not immediately clear if there were any injuries in the blaze. The South Jakarta fire department has not given any details on what caused the fire.
The fire department has dispatched 13 fire engines to the blaze site and managed to extinguish the fire at 11:15 on Thursday morning.
“Personnel from the fire department have arrived to put out the fire,” spokesperson for the ministry Tubagus Erif Faturahman said as quoted by kompas.com.
On Wednesday, a suspected Islamist militant, whom the police claimed to have been angered by the new Criminal Code, blew himself up in Bandung, West Java, killing one other person and wounding at least 10.
The Law and Human Rights Ministry has been spearheading the effort to pass the new Criminal Code, which critics say has rolled back civil liberties and some of democratic gains made in the past two decades.
