President Jokowi Wants The Asset Confiscation Bill To Be Ratified Immediately

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Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD stated that President Joko Widodo asked that the Draft Law on Asset Confiscation in Criminal Acts be ratified immediately.

"The president has also repeatedly said that please ratify the Asset Confiscation Bill in criminal acts. We have included the Minister of Law and Human Rights in the National Legislation Program and my PDIP friends are also okay with this," Mahfud said in a Focus Group Discussion with the theme "Reformation of the National Legal System: Ideology, Constitutional and Legal Culture Approach" at the PDI-P Party School, South Jakarta, Thursday, October 13.

Therefore, Mahfud asked the DPR to speed up the discussion of the Asset Confiscation Bill so that it would be ratified immediately.

"So, please speed this up so that people can't get corrupt either," he said as quoted by Antara.

According to him, the Asset Confiscation Bill will become a legal umbrella to provide a deterrent effect to corruptors because it will regulate the confiscation of assets belonging to perpetrators of corruption cases suspected of being indicted.

"So that people don't dare to corrupt either because if corruption becomes a suspect, especially the defendant, before the decision is confiscated, the allegations of corruption will be suspected. People are afraid to do that because the corrupt person is basically afraid of being poor," said Mahfud.

The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs also encouraged the Bill on the Position of Judges as part of legal reform so that it could be immediately discussed in parliament.

"It has been discussed before, there has been a special committee, it is there, now it is gone. Even though this will later give authority to the DPR, the community, the government, how to prevent the judge from deviating," said Mahfud.

He added that the Judge's Position Bill had been discussed since he was still the head of the Constitutional Court.