Assembly session under fire

Assembly session under fire

YOGYAKARTA: A group of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
under the Forum LSM Yogyakarta criticized the People's
Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Monday for failing to produce
concrete results on agrarian reform during its annual session.

In its two-page statement, the group announced its motion of
non-confidence to the outcome of the Rp 25.7 billion session.

"None of those involved in the Annual Session talked about the
people's real problem. They were just quarreling for political
power instead," the group said in the statement, made available
to The Jakarta Post.

"What they did was only wasting people's money," the statement
signed by Damar Dwi Nugroho read.

The group regretted the Assembly for failing to fulfill its
promise to push the Annual Session to endorse a decree on the
reform of agrarian law. (44)