REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR) Priyo Budi Santoso has supported a proposal to cancel the planned revision of the law on corruption eradication commission (KPK). The member of Golkar Party stated that the plan to revise the law should be dropped.

"We must listen to the mounting demand from the public, who do not want the law to be revised," he said at the parliament building on Wednesday. "The House Commission III, which proposed the revision, should formally announce the cancellation at a House plenary meeting," he added.

Priyo noted that the proposal had already reached the legislative body. "The proposed revision of the law is still in the form of a draft, so it will take long time for the DPR to pass it into a law," he pointed out.

"The plan to revise the law has been incorporated into the national legislation priority programme for 2012. But if there is strong will on the part of the House to cancel the plan, so be it," Priyo said. 

Meanwhile, Hidayat Nur Wahid, a member of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), stated that his party was also opposed to the planned revision of the law. "The PKS faction, including its members sitting in the House legislation body, has demanded that the proposed revision of the law on KPK be cancelled," he said.

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