Bamsoet Encourages DPR Initiative To Revise Weapons Ownership Law

Member of the DPR and General Chairperson of the DPP Periksha Bambang Soesatyo discussed the revision of the Emergency Law Number 12 of 1951 during his skills in Denpasar, Bali, Saturday 26/7/2025. (ANTARA/Ni Putu Putri Muliantari)

DENPASAR - Member of the House of Representatives Bambang Soesatyo who is also the General Chair of the DPP Association of Owners of Special Permits for Indonesian Self-Defense Firearms (Periksha) encourages the revision process of the Emergency Law Number 12 of 1951 concerning possession and use of firearms.

In the 2025 Periksha Skills Activities in Denpasar, Bali, Bamsoet, as he is known, encourages the DPR RI to take over revisions through the board's initiative.

"We have indeed prepared changes to the law, the revision of the emergency law which has been around for a long time in 1951 to the new rules, we have made academic studies, it's just a matter of pushing for the DPR initiative," he said, Saturday, July 26.

"Because there are two ways to administer the law, namely the DPR or the government, it feels like we will encourage the initiative of friends in the DPR to revise the Emergency Law Number 12 of 1951," said Bamsoet.

Currently, around 300 official firearms owners in Periksha, according to him, need a strong legal umbrella.

They can't just use their weapons, but the owner of this permit is a component of the country's defense reserves.

"If our army numbers are 600 thousand, the police are also 700 thousand, facing enemies and threats throughout Indonesia that are so wide, we (the owner of special permits for firearms) who have firearms skills that are included in the reserve component of defending the country, we will be allowed to train people using weapons," he said as quoted by ANTARA.

Bamsoet questioned the Directorate of Intelligence and Security of the Bali Police regarding who assessed when the firearm owner was forced to use his gun when he wanted to defend himself or his life was threatened.

"This needs witnesses but this witness can also be subjective, the point is that we must be careful and wise, we must read again the Emergency Law Number 12 of 1951, explore it," he said.

Not to mention, the National Police Chief Regulation (Perpol) Number 1 of 2022 which regulates licensing, supervision, and control of firearms within the National Police can impose a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison which endangers the official gun owners in the organization.

"So, be careful not to let us have weapons of intent to defend ourselves, maintain the dignity of our families and lives, but it turns out that we are in a cell, going to prison," said Bamsoet.

Currently still referring to existing regulations, the member of Commission III of the DPR invited the police to hold a march to share the perception of a form of threat that would allow firearms owners to use their weapons.

To the owners of firearms permits, Bamsoet invites them to be wise and fully aware of using them.

"The firearms must be attached to our bodies, do not put them in the car, in the trunk or where because it is dangerous and the punishment is also severe," he said.

"If in the past we fought with pointed bamboo, now today we have made a lot of progress, we have firearms, so use firearms wisely," he said.