SUPREME COURT DRAFT LAW
A Law In Conflict
The House of Representatives ratified the Draft Law on the Supreme Court. Indonesia Corruption Watch is preparing to take the law before the Constitutional Court.
December 24, 2008
THE head of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) faction, Tjahjo Kumolo, seized the microphone in front of him. His loud voice echoed across the hall. “Interruption, chair,” he shouted. He asked the session chair, who is also the Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR), Agung Laksono, to postpone the ratification of the Draft Law on the Supreme Court or open the deliberations to a compromise between factions; the reason b
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