REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The House Speaker, Bambang Soesatyo, has said his institution will soon send its approval of the anti-terrorism bill to the government. The anti-terrorism bill is a draft amendment of Law No.15 Year of 2003 on the Stipulation of the Government's Regulation In Lieu of Law No.1 Year of 2002 on counterterrorism.

"We will do our best to send the letter today so that the bill will soon be enacted into law," the House of Representatives (DPR) chairman said here on Friday.

Soesatyo said that after the DPR provided its approval, it was for the government to enact the law. If there was something inappropriate, the DPR alone should not be blamed because the draft bill was discussed with the government.

"Now we call on the government to implement the message of the law in accordance with the need that we have decided together," the DPR chairman said.

He said the bill contained new provisions such as a chapter on victims, a chapter on institutions, a chapter on supervision and a chapter on the rule of the military (TNI). The House Speaker also called on the government to stipulate a government and a presidential regulation as soon as the bill on counterterrorism was made law.

"We ask all Indonesian people to support the implementation of the bill, which will be carried out by the government after it is enacted," he said.

The House of Representatives' plenary session on Friday morning endorsed the Bill.

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