Nur Janti (The Jakarta Post)
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Fri, July 1, 2022
The government and the House of Representatives are pushing ahead with a limited revision of the Criminal Code (KUHP), calling it a “historic mission” to decolonize outdated laws that the country inherited from the Dutch colonial era.
But not all activists and legal experts are buying it, pointing out that a number of draconian provisions that could potentially shrink the country’s civic space could remain intact or even be expanded.
For many years, lawmakers and the government have attempted, rather ambitiously, to revise the colonial-era penal code. Since the last iteration in 2015, the drafting team claims it has prioritized prudence and transparency, although critics believe this has changed in recent years, marked by rush jobs and closed-door deliberations.
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