A Trap to Render the KPK Toothless
The KUHAP Bill is thought to have been crafted in such a way it will reduce the KPK's powers. Many are calling for all discussion of it to be stopped.
February 18, 2014
REJECTION of any discussions on the Criminal Procedures Code Bill (KUHAP) and Criminal Code (KUHP) is being increasingly voiced. It's not just anti-corruption activists vocally expressing their rejection of the two Bills now being discussed in the House of Representatives (DPR). Protests by state institutions of the caliber of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have been no less vocal.
Together with several NGOs, the KPK even plans to writ
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