REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The plenary of Indonesian People's Representatives Council will discuss revision of Anti-Terrorism bill on Friday, May 25. The information was conveyed by a lawmaker, Muhammad Syafi'i, who is also chairman of the law revision's special committee.

"The government has followed the logic of law, hence it can be moved to the plenary to be approved," he noted here on Monday.

Syafi'i added that the special committee had updated the chairman of the Council related to the revision bill of Law Number 15/2003 about Counter-terrorism and its discussion's agenda.

The special committee will continue the discussion of Anti-Terrorism bill on Wednesday, May 23, and finalize it on Thursday, May 24, before bring it to the plenary. Syafi'i believed that the agenda would be run on schedule if the government did not ask to hold the discussion on Wednesday.

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The public's pressure to the People's Representative Council to finalize the revision bill soon is massive following a series of bomb attack in Surabaya and Sidoarjo, East Java, on May 13, and a police station in Riau on May 16.

In fact, the government had proposed the revision of anti-terrorism law to the DPR in 2016 following a bomb attack in Thamrin area in Jakarta. However, the revision of the law remains uncompleted until now.

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