Indonesia to finalise Asset Forfeiture Bill
Jakarta (VNA) –
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has urged the House of Representatives
to soon finalise the Asset Forfeiture Bill, saying it will support the handling of
corruption cases in the country.
Deliberations on the bill are still on in the
parliament, according to the President.
The Asset Forfeiture Law will make the
prosecution of corruption cases easier and serve as a legal umbrella for the
authority to confiscate corruptors' assets, he said.
Earlier, during a joint hearing with Commission III
of the House, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and
Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, also called on legislators to pass the bill.
Mahfud said that the bill would enable the
handling of alleged irregular transactions worth 349 trillion IDR (about 5.2
billion USD) at the Ministry of Finance./.