The House of Representatives has started to ponder the controversial family durability expense as lawmakers behind the bill, which is deemed by critics to interfere in the personal lives of citizens, submitted the compound to your house’ Legislation Body (Baleg) on Monday.
Legislator Netty Prasetiyani of the Prosperous Justice Celebration (PKS) highlighted in the conference with Baleg that the government need to protect families, the basis for making public policies, from “vulnerability”.
” If each family is able to develop ‘resistance’ and ‘antibodies’ against [life challenges], then family strength will end up being a pillar of national strength,” Netty said, as livestreamed on YouTube on Monday.
Another supporter of the expense, lawmaker Ali Taher of the National Mandate Celebration (PAN), argued that the expense was essential to attend to the social space between rural and metropolitan locations, which according to him, would trigger different social problems that interrupted household resilience.
” Spaces between rural and city areas would cause six standard issues, particularly joblessness, hardship, family lack of organization, crime, complimentary sex and drugs, which affect household resilience,” Ali stated.
” So the presence of this law is important to reinforce our national resilience.”
Ali further stated the household strength bill was likewise necessary to safeguard households from the negative effect of globalization, which he stated could shake the socioeconomic order and trigger a shift in Indonesian cultural worths.
The costs was extensively discussed earlier this year after it was included in your house’s 2020 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas) top priority list, in addition to numerous other problematic costs.
Members of the general public and activists have actually heavily slammed the 98- page draft bill as it consisted of provisions interfering in personal matters and attempts to restore the standard and patriarchal way of handling families.
Critics pointed out some questionable arrangements in the bill, such as Post 24, which stipulates that couples need to love each other, and Short Article 25, which specifies that couples should perform their private functions in accordance with spiritual norms and social principles.
The bill also sought to prohibit sperm and egg donors and that parents and children, as well as bros and sisters, ought to have different bed rooms. The costs also defined that LGBT people and bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism (BDSM) specialists should go through rehabilitation, with their families obliged to report them to the authorities.
Besides Netty and Ali, the other initiators of the family durability expense were Ledia Hanifa of the PKS, Endang Maria Astuti of the Golkar Celebration and Sodik Mudjahid of the Gerindra Celebration.
However, Golkar, Gerindra and the Indonesian Democratic Celebration of Struggle (PDI-P) have rejected they are officially supporting the costs, saying any expression of assistance came from specific members acting on their own and not from the celebrations.
In July, the House and the federal government revised the 2020 Prolegnas list, authorizing to drop 16 of 50 costs and including 3 more. However, the household strength bill and other questionable bills, particularly the omnibus expense on task production, in addition to expenses on the criminal code, correctional center and Pancasila ideology standards (HIP), remained on the list.
