President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (file)

President: Govt to challenge indirect election law

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a press conference on Tuesday morning said the government was planning to challenge the newly-inaugurated indirect regional election law which was passed by the Parliament last week. "We are now discussing on other ways to save the election system which I think is the best for Indonesia, that is direct election with...

Indonesian House of Representative during a plenary session in Senayan, Jakarta (illustration)

Most Indonesians: Sorry... we're not big fans of the House

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - It turns out that most of Indonesian people disfavor to the House of Representatives, according to survey by Lingkar Survey Indonesia (LSI). The survey says that 56.43 percent of 1,200 parents forbid their children to become lawmakers or members of the House. An LSI researcher, Rully Akbar, announcing the result on Sunday, said that the feeling disfavor is...