Akbar confident of his leadership<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung said
\non Friday that a petition over his suspension submitted by more
\nthan 100 legislators would not proceed for further discussion
\nafter the House's Steering Committee (Bamus) failed to make any
\ndecision about his fate on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The committee handed over the case to the House's leaders.<\/p>\n
\"I think that kind of a petition cannot be included on the
\nHouse's meeting agenda because the legislators' right of
\ninterpellation should be directed only toward the government, not
\nthe House's leaders.<\/p>\n
\"Besides, there has been no precedent of it (the House
\ndeliberating on a proposal to suspend its speaker),\" Akbar, who
\nis also the Golkar Party chairman, told the journalists at his
\noffice.<\/p>\n
More than 100 legislators from various factions, including the
\nGolkar faction, signed a petition demanding Akbar be suspended
\nfrom the House after he was sentenced to three years jail for
\ncorruption.<\/p>\n
Akbar has not been jailed pending the outcome of an appeal. --
\nJP<\/p>",
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