PDI-P angry over disciplinary move

JAKARTA: Three Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) legislators say they are going to file a complaint with the police and a civil suit against the House of Representatives disciplinary committee for defamation.

Effendi Simbolon, Suparlan and Mangara Siahaan said the committee had discriminated against them by issuing them with an official rebuke, while merely issuing a verbal reprimand to House Speaker Agung Laksono.

"There's no such thing as a verbal reprimand in the House's standing orders," Suparlan said.

Disciplinary committee chairman Slamet Effendi Yusuf from the Golkar Party said it came within the committee's powers to issue a verbal reprimand, and denied that the police had any jurisdiction in the matter. --JP