The legislators at Senayan (House of Representatives—DPR) suffer from a chronic disease: opportunism. As long as there is no ban on overseas travel, and the funds are available, they are all doing it. The fact that there are no results of these trips, not to mention the damage incurred to the legislature’s image, does not seem to bother them.

‘Opportunism’ also applies to the revision of laws concerning the main duties of the representat