Government weighs changing corruption law to boost investment climate
The government is reviewing possible revisions to the anticorruption law to improve legal certainty and the investment climate, with possible changes focusing on clarifying the definition of state financial losses and specifying corruption offences.
The Indonesian government is considering revisions to the anticorruption law to improve legal certainty and the investment climate, according to a recent meeting between National Economic Council chairman Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and Coordinating Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional Services Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra.
The proposal aims to clarify the definition of state financial losses and specify corruption offences, as the current provisions in Articles 2 and 3 are seen as too broad and open to interpretation, potentially allowing acts that do not necessarily constitute corruption to be prosecuted under the law. The government is also considering defining corruption offences in more specific categories, similar to the approach used in the antiterrorism law, which explicitly lists the acts covered by the law.
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