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View all search resultsThe outgoing President is rumored to be considering taking a position on the Presidential Advisory Board (Wantimpres), following the House of Representatives' swift revision of a law regulating the body last week.
The House of Representatives is set to pass on Thursday a series of legislations that will allow president-elect Prabowo Subianto to form a bigger cabinet and appoint more members to a presidential advisory board once he takes office.
The House of Representatives drew the ire of civil groups as it rushed through a batch of controversial bills on the last days of its penultimate sitting period, building on previous methods of rushed and deceitful legislation.
The House of Representatives' Legislation Body (Baleg) is expected to introduce a proposal to revise the Presidential Advisory Board (Wantimpres) Law during a plenary session on July 11, which may see the revival of the Supreme Advisory Council (DPA), a body on the same level as the executive tasked with helping and advising the president.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Agus Rahardjo has officially asked President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to cancel the plan to amend Law No.30/2002 on the KPK. He submitted his request during a meeting between KPK commissioners and Presidential Advisory Board (Wantimpres) members at the State Palace in Jakarta on Monday.
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