At least four groups of House of Representatives (DPR) members are traveling abroad this month for what they claim are “comparative studies”.
They are from the special committee for the bill on social conflict management, the Legislation Body, the Agriculture Commission and the Manpower Commission, tempo.co reported on Tuesday.
Deputy Chairperson of the special committee for the bill on social conflict management, Eva Kusuma Sundari, said two teams of the committee were traveling to Sweden and India respectively, each team consisting of seven House members and two staffers. They left on Dec. 3 and would return on Dec. 9.
“We will report the results of our studies to the public,” she said.
Deputy Chairperson for the Legislation Body, Ida Fauziah, said that 11 members in charge of the bill for drug and food control had left for China for a comparative study and would return on Dec. 9.
The Agriculture Commission conducted comparative studies in the United States, Japan, China and India. They left at the end of last month and are scheduled to return home today. Their trips are in relation to the deliberation of the food bill and the bill on farmers’ protection and empowerment.
“The comparative studies are very important because of, among other things,tariff systems, protection, farmers’ financial institutions,subsidies, promotion, agriculture insurance and food institutions,”Herman Khaeron, Deputy Chairperson of the Commission from Democratic
Party said.
As for the Manpower Commission, they are traveling to South Korea and Hong Kong. They are in South Korea regarding the deliberation of the revision of the Law for the Replacement and Protection of Indonesian
Migrant Workers. “On our way back home, we will drop off in Hong Kong to find out the conditions of Indonesian migrant workers there,” said Rieke Dyah Pitaloka from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.
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