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House adds 10 more bills for deliberation this year
The House of Representatives on Monday added 10 draft laws to the 2016 national priority legislation program (Prolegnas), bringing the total number of bills requiring deliberation this year to 50. House lawmakers agreed on the additional bills in a plenary meeting led by the House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Taufik Kurniawan.
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Gearing up -- House of Representatives members prepare to attend a plenary meeting at the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta. The House on Monday added 10 more bills to this year's National Legislation Program (Prolegnas) for deliberation. (Tempo/-)
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he House of Representatives on Monday added 10 draft laws to the 2016 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas), bringing the total number of bills requiring deliberation this year to 50. House lawmakers agreed on the additional bills in a plenary meeting led by the House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Taufik Kurniawan.
Earlier, this year's Prolegnas contained 40 priority bills, five of which had been passed into law. They are the Public Housing Savings (Tapera) Law; the Fishermen, Fishing Pond Farmers and Salt Farmers Protection and Empowerment Law; the Disability Law; the Financial System Crisis Prevention and Mitigation (PPKSK) Law; and the Regional Elections Law.
"We will coordinate the changes to the list with the House's completion apparatus council [AKD], which is assigned to handle special issues," the House's Legislation Body (Baleg) deputy chairman Firman Subagyo said during the plenary meeting at the House in Jakarta on Monday.
On June 6, the Baleg and the government, represented by the Law and Human Rights Ministry, agreed to revise the 2016 Prolegnas and the Prolegnas for the 2015-2019 period.
Firman said the House would not be occupied by the additional draft laws because it had set a target of passing 40 bills into law every year. Currently, only 20 bills from the 2016 Prolegnas had reached the deliberation process’ first phase. This meant those laws were still being discussed by the House’s commissions or working units.
The 10 additional bills include the Sexual Violence Eradication Bill, the amendment of Law No. 5/2014 on Civil Servants, the Palm Oil Bill, the second amendment of Law No. 23/1999 on Bank Indonesia (BI), the second amendment of Law No. 21/2011 on the Financial Services Authority (OJK).
The five other bills are the Revenue Stamp Bill, the second amendment of Law No. 15/2006 on the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), the second amendment of Law No. 24/2003 on the Supreme Court (MA), the Drugs and Psychotropic Bill, and the Indonesian Red-Cross Bill. (ebf)
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