Assembly to discuss DPD's authority

JAKARTA: The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) secretariat will organize a workshop on the functions, duties and authority of the newly formed Regional Representatives Council (DPD), which will make up about one-fourth of the MPR.

Speakers at the three-day workshop will include the South Africa Parliament's former undersecretary Peter Lilienfeld.

A number of legislators, including Jacob Tobing of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Ali Masykur Musa of the National Awakening Party (PKB), will also speak. - JP