House Deputy Speaker: Urgent for ITE Law to be Dropped
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9 July 2019 20:04 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Fahri Hamzah said the electronic information and transactions (ITE) law has taken many victims; most people were wrongfully sacrificed by the "elastic law."
Fahri mentioned two individuals he argues have been wrongfully charged under the ITE Law; Baiq Nuril and Ratna Sarumpaet.
“The ITE Law is defective. I deem this an urgent matter. This elastic law must be dropped. Just issue a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu),” said Fahri in the Senayan Parliamentary Complex on July 9.
He sees that the law does not have a positive tendency in a country that adopts democracy and suggests the electronic information and transactions law be returned to its initial form as the Economic Transaction Law.
“Don’t make it a Law enabling people to file police reports on a daily basis, in either Facebook or Twitter and many other platforms. Police would be tired at a certain point. Our nation can get fatigued by this,” he asserts.
He suggests President Jokowi issue a Perppu to annul the law, “The president can get tired of it. Even though he would look like a hero and grant amnesties, but people will get tired,” said the former PKS politician.
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