House consults scholars over bill

JAKARTA: All nine factions in the House of Representatives (DPR) are scheduled on Wednesday to present their comments on the presidential election bill drafted by the home ministry.

Agustin Teras Narang, chairman of the House special committee deliberating the bill, said on Monday that each faction would then submit inputs to the committee to improve deliberation.

The home minister will respond to the House's comments on March 31.

In the meantime, legislators are scheduled to gather inputs from political scholars from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and officials from the General Elections Commission (KPU) on April 1 and April 3 respectively.

The committee will also hear inputs from political scholars with the University of Indonesia and Gadjah Mada University on April 8. -- JP