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Indonesia scraps law change after protests

» Updated: 07 September 2024, 03:31

» Published: 22 August 2024

Indonesia scraps law change after protests
Photo: Dita Alangkara/AP/TT

Indonesia's government scraps a criticized plan for a law change after thousands of demonstrators on Thursday tried to storm the country's parliament in Jakarta.

The government wanted to let the parliament vote on revoking a decision by the country's constitutional court. It would have in practice stopped a prominent government critic from running in the election on Java in November – and paved the way for the outgoing President Joko Widodo's son to run.

After the demonstrators' protests initially got the vote on the proposal postponed, it was later announced that the proposal for the law change would be scrapped and not be taken up during the current term.

The decision was made to discontinue the revision of the regional election law. It means that the revision was discontinued today, said Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives, to reporters after the protests that led to clashes between demonstrators and police.

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