Indonesia Wiretapping Bill

I don’t understand why Depkominfo has the plan to regulate the wiretapping (penyadapan) for KPK in the first place. That’s why it’s understandable if minister Tifatul Sembiring has been called by Adnan Buyung as “corrupter supporter” because none will get full advantage of this policy except the corrupters.

Meanwhile, we should question President SBY’s commitment to fight against corruption while at the same time dwarf the anti-corruption insitution with this bill if implemented. via Jakarta Globe

Minister of Communication and Information Technology Tifatul Sembiring pledged on Tuesday to find a “middle ground” on two crucial points in the controversial wiretapping bill that have been criticized by the Corruption Eradication Commission.

Tifatul met privately on Tuesday with Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, the interim head of the commission, known as the KPK.

He said the KPK questioned the ministry’s plan to require a court order to tap telephones and to establish the so-called National Interception Agency, which is designed to handle all wiretapping requests from law-enforcement agencies.

Tuesday’s meeting “will not be our last,” Tifatul said. “We still have time until April 2010, when we plan to finish deliberating the bill. We will continue discussing the two points intensively. Hopefully before that we could come up with some sort of a middle ground.”

KPK spokesman Johan Budi said the latest version of the bill wiretapping still contained a number of unclear provisions.