House rushes debate on commission bill

House rushes debate on commission bill

JAKARTA: The House of Representatives committee deliberating
the truth and reconciliation commission bill has intensified its
deliberation and pledged to finish it in the upcoming session.

M. Akil Mochtar, the committee's deputy chairman, said on
Friday his team was now working on the wording of the bill.

The military/police faction had earlier demanded that the bill
focus on reconciliation, rather than the truth.

The bill is designed to settle gross human rights abuses that
occurred before the law on the human rights tribunal was endorsed
in 2000.

Atrocities that occurred before 2000 will be settled through a
reconciliation forum. -- JP