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On Thursday, the Indonesian parliament will provide more civilian positions for military civilian positions, and a controversial law on the protests and the world’s third largest democracy erosion.
The amendments were offered by the former Prabowo Subianto allies serving under Suharto dictator. The movement warned that Indonesia has issued an authoritarian past between government and critics and reveals the authoritarian past of Indonesia.
Mr. Prabowo won a Sliding election victory Last year with the support of his predecessor, Joko Widodo. His strength and management of human rights revived the fear of the future of the most in the world Live democrats. In the late 1990s, the army was discharged after the theft for the abduction of political opposition.
Mr. Prabowo, the adjustments to be entered in law, clear the way to fill more civilian tasks to manage the duties of military officers. The President has already done Expanded his military role In civil functions, including the flagship school in the lunch program.
Speaker of the sub-house causing a vote in the plenary session, Puan Maharani said that the revised law will remain “in democratic values and principles, civilians, human rights.” In one speech, the Minister of Defense Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said the changes were necessary, because the army “should face conventional and non-traditional threats.”
The government said that the existing law in 2004 is outdated. This prevents the existence of the military in parliament and officially ended the so-called “double function” experience that allows the Armed Forces to intervene in politics.
Law activists accused the Government of Ramping to Raming the Prabowo government without proper consultation with civil society groups. Thursday, before the bill was issued, dozens of students gathered in the parliamentary doors in Jakarta, caught the banners that hold the banners: “Back to the firearms.”
“We are actually riding a situation in the Indonesian university,” said Titi Anggraini at the University of Indonesia. “Power is centralized and authoritarian.”
Coalition of Civil Society groups gathered on Wednesday 12000 Signatures He objects to the law.
A NGO, which is a free legal assistance to the chairman of the Indonesian Legal Assistance Foundation, Muhamad Law Assistance Foundation, Marginal and low-income communities, followed the will of the governments of the “buffaloes of the nose”. “
The bill, Mr. Muhamad, simply serves the interests of military elites and civil politicians who do not comply with the democratic rules of the game, “he said.
Rin hindusti Contributing report.
