TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Legal and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has challenged the students staging a rally in front of the DPR building to meet him or the lawmakers to debate on draft bills or RUU. He opined the students should not have to topple the building gate.

“If they want a debate, if they want to ask about draft bills they should come to DPR, to me. Not bringing down the gate,” said Yasonna in the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, September 24.

He also demanded all students not being carried away by improper political agenda. According to the minister, there was information about certain parties willing to infiltrate the students protest.

Moreover, he went on, the Criminal Code draft bill (RKUHP) has been delayed for ratification. “I hope all students are not influenced by wrongful political agenda,” Yasonna said.

As for the amended Law on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the minister let students and the public to file a material review to Constitutional Court. “As the intellectuals, as students who comply with the law, we must go through the mechanism.”

A wave of students from numerous universities flocked the road before the DPR building, Jalan Gatot Subroto, today, September 24. Along with farmers, workers, and journalists, they protested problematic draft bills and laws passed by the DPR.

They reject draft bills on Criminal Code (RKUHP), correctional procedures (RUU PAS), lands (RUU Pertanahan), mineral and coal (RUU Minerba), as well as employment (RUU Ketenagakerjaan) and demand revocation of the newly-amended KPK Law and Law on water resources (UU SDA). The protesters also urged the bill on sexual violence eradication and social worker protection to be passed into law.

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