Polemics over A Meeting between House Leaders and Timur Pradopo

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Leaders of the House of Representatives (DPR) will ask members of its Commission III on legal affairs to have dialogues and stop polemics over a meeting between the leadership and Police chief candidate Commissioner General Timur Pradopo. 

Deputy Speaker of the House Pramono Anung said here on Monday that the House leadership would ask the Commission III members not to prolong the polemics over the meeting.

"We should now stop the polemics. We will ask our colleagues Commission III members to sit together," Pramono Anung said.       Anung asked the commission members not to sharpen the problem and not to involve the House’s Ethics Council.       "We should not protract the problem into an internal conflict in the House. Let’s sit together and find the best way. We should not spend energy for that," Anung who is a former secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (DPIP) said.       He said that the House leadership would decide a schedule for the meeting between the commission members and the House leadership.       "It is expected that all House leaders would attend the meeting so that the polemics over the meeting between the DPR leaders and the police chief candidate would be stopped," he said.