The Legislative Council Of The House Of Representatives Agreed To Cancel The Discussion Of The TNI-Polri Bill

JAKARTA - The Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR RI agreed to cancel the discussion of the TNI-Polri Draft Law (RUU) which was previously approved into the DPR's initiative bill. Baleg will see the urgency of the TNI Polri Bill to be discussed at the next period of the DPR session. "Today Baleg decided to postpone or cancel the discussion of the TNI Polri Law. Later we will convey that this will be continued for the next DPR, but this looks at its urgency later. So Baleg decided not to discuss it first, and to postpone or cancel the TNI-Polri discussion," said Chairman of the DPR Baleg Wihadi Wiyanto at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, August 26. Wihadi did not explain in detail the reason why the DPR canceled discussing the TNI-Polri Bill. What is clear, he said, Baleg DPR decided to cancel its discussion. "Yes, we decide to cancel it first. Later we will see the urgency, to be discussed in the next period. This is if we see later the next period which will, this is related to thecarry over, right. So we will see the urgency later, "said the Gerindra politician. It is confirmed, there will be no more meetings in the DPR to discuss the TNI Polri Bill until the end of the 2019-2024 period ends. "No, no, no, no. We cancel it first, so we cancel the discussion, we will cancel it first," he said. As is known, the DPR RI has approved the revision of the Indonesian National Army Law (TNI) Number 34 of 2004 to the proposed DPR initiative bill in the Plenary meeting which was held on Tuesday, 28 May, then. The approval of the revision of the TNI Law to the proposed bill of the DPR RI initiative was carried out simultaneously with three other revisions of the law, including the State Ministry of State Law and the Police Law.

In the draft, there are several points that have drawn a lot of attention. For example, in the National Police Bill, there are several additional plans for authority to change the retirement age limit for Polri members. Then in the TNI Bill, there are also plans to add a soldier's age pension limit and plan to place active TNI soldiers in ministries/state institutions.