A Heated Debate over Hot Assets
The Bill on the Asset Forfeiture Connected to Crimes failed to be put on the 2021 Priority National Legislation Program. The House of Representatives blocked it.
Hussein Abri Dongoran
October 11, 2021
DURING a visit to the office of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Faction leaders on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 15, several leaders and members of the Legislation Body of the House of Representatives (DPR) conveyed their grievances. That day Minister of Justice and Human Rights Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly had submitted an Asset Forfeiture Bill.
Two politicians who were there for that meeting on the seventh floor of the
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