Last Minute Delay
Lawmakers postpone voting on the Mass Organizations Bill as activists demonstrate outside parliament.
July 2, 2013
As soon as Abdul Malik Haramain finished reading a report at the House of Representatives (DPR) plenary session on Tuesday last week, he was blasted with interruptions from the lawmakers assembled. For almost quarter of an hour, Abdul, chair of the special committee for deliberation of the bill on civil society organizations, had reported that all deliberation pertaining to the bill had been dealt with at a previous session. In turned out that m
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