"The RUU Kemans should be deliberated first before other bills such as the bill on intelligence, revision of the law on corruption and those on other security sector," Setara Institute Chairman Hendardi said here on Monday.
He said that Setara Institute agreed with the idea on the need to improve systematically laws on the security sector.
Hendardi said that as an organization fighting for the upholding of human rights, Setara Institute was seriously concerned with the draft bills on this sector.
Therefore, the deliberations of RUU Kemnas, which constitutes the legal umbrella of other laws on the national security, should be finished in the first place, while trying to synchronize it with three other legal products already existing such as Law No. 2/2002 on National Police, Law No. 3/2003 on State Defense and Law No. 34 / 2004 on the National Defense Forces (TNI).
He said that his institute hoped that the deliberations on bill on state intelligence which was expected to be finished this month would be delayed before those of the RUU Kemnas were completed.
"The RUU Kemnas constitutes a legal umbrella of laws on security sector. If the bill on intelligence is finished first, it would not be effective legally before its legal umbrella already already existed before hand," Hendardi said.
Apart from that, Setara also urged the House of Representatives to accomplish the deliberations of all bills on the national security sector by the end of 2012.
"In our observation, the House of Representatives is too slow in carrying out its legislation function because it has been focusing more on supervision and on politicking on various national issues," the Setara Institute chairman said.***3***
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