The Complicated Process of Amendment

December 4, 2000

The doors of the meeting room of Commission IX of the House of Representatives (DPR) were open, indicating the end of its closed-door session to elect a chairman of the Special Committee (Pansus) for Amending Law No.23 on Bank Indonesia (BI). Reporters attempting to enter the room were stopped in front of the doorway. "Wait, wait a minute," said a House staffer. He seemed to be waiting until his colleague finished erasing the result of

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