The House of Representatives (DPR) has finally passed Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perpu) No. 2/2017 into law despite widespread objection from civil society organization. This only happened because several political parties have taken an ambiguous stance on passing the law: they accepted it, whilst at the same time, asked for revisions on several articles.

This duplicity was shown by the Democrat Party, the National Awakening Party (PK