With 2019 elections looming next April 19, Indonesia’s General Election Commission (KPU) is seeking to bar prospective local lawmakers who have been convicted of corruption, a move regarded with little enthusiasm from the country’s political parties, whose members passed a law in February in the House of Representatives that not only immunized them from corruption charges but gives them the power to take action against their accusers.
Indonesia Tries to Clean up Elections
Indonesia Tries to Clean up Elections
Indonesia Tries to Clean up Elections
With 2019 elections looming next April 19, Indonesia’s General Election Commission (KPU) is seeking to bar prospective local lawmakers who have been convicted of corruption, a move regarded with little enthusiasm from the country’s political parties, whose members passed a law in February in the House of Representatives that not only immunized them from corruption charges but gives them the power to take action against their accusers.