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