Reject RKUHP, Action Masses Threaten To Demo Even Larger In The House Of Representatives Tomorrow

Demo menolak RKUHP (Nailin-VOI)

JAKARTA - The mass action in front of the DPR building threatened to hold even greater demonstrations if the problematic article in the draft Criminal Code Draft (RKUHP) was not revoked. A public lawyer for LBH Jakarta, Citra Referandum, said that the DPR had betrayed the people if the RKUHP was ratified. "We will continue to reject. We will be even more and bigger to come to the DPR to reject the RKUHP until tomorrow," said Citra in front of the DPR building, Monday, December 5. "Here there is a symbolic action like a sowing of flowers, and we also convey our attitude with a jumbo banner against the RKUHP. This symbolizes that our country is truly dead in a democratic way," he continued. Citra emphasized that his party rejected the ratification of the RKUHP which was scheduled for tomorrow in the DPR plenary meeting. He asked the government and the DPR to listen to the aspirations of the public to revoke problematic articles in the draft RKUHP. "The government and the DPR should hear and consider meaningfully the opinion of the public that we ask that problematic articles in the RKUHP such as anti-democratic articles be revoked," he said. According to Citra, the government or DPR is not transparent in designing the RKUHP because it is difficult for the public to access the draft regulation. Therefore, he threatened to bring even greater masses to the DPR to refuse the RKUHP to be ratified tomorrow. "Currently, what the government and the DPR are doing in this ratification is very opaque, because we cannot access the draft officially in the immediate future. We can only access yesterday," said Citra. Meanwhile, Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly, invited people who did not agree with the ratification of the Draft Criminal Code (RKUHP) to sue to the Constitutional Court (MK). Because according to Yasonna, the Criminal Code is an obsolete and irrelevant Dutch product for the current law in Indonesia. “ If there is a difference of opinion, later when it has been ratified, sue the Constitutional Court! That is a constitutional mechanism,” Yasonna told reporters at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, December 5. Yasonna ensured that the RKUHP had been discussed very carefully and received input from the public. In fact, he said, the RKUHP has also been socialized throughout the country. "This has been discussed and has been socialized throughout the country, all stakeholders," said Yasonna.