The Criminal Code Law Has Been Ratified, The DPR Leadership Will Not Meet The Demonstrators In Front Of The Parliament Building

Leaders of the Indonesian House of Representatives Lodewijk F Paulus (Kanan) and Sufmi Dasco Ahmad (Kiri)/Nailin In Saroh-VOI

The leadership of the DPR RI stated that they would not meet the protesters in front of the parliament building because the draft Criminal Code Bill had been passed into law. This was conveyed by the Deputy Speaker of the DPR for Korpolkam, Lodewijk F Paulus, responding to media questions related to the second mass action which was held to reject the revision of the RKUHP today. "Meanwhile, we don't, because we have confirmed it. Let this process proceed," said Lodewijk at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, December 6. According to Lodewijk, demonstrators can file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court if they are not satisfied with the newly passed legal product. "If there is any dissatisfaction, of course there are legal steps taken, tell the Constitutional Court. And this is a very long process, imagine that our 59 years have been delayed, delayed, delayed. So if you say there is less socialization, actually no, that the process has been going on for a long time. So let them continue, we also have other activities," said the Secretary General of the Golkar Party. Previously, the mass of the action that held a demonstration in front of the DPR building on Monday, December 5, threatened to hold a even bigger demonstration if the problematic article in the draft Draft Criminal Code (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.