Jakarta, Sept. 16 -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) pointed to the friction between the government and House of Representatives (DPR) while deliberating a bill on the revision of Law No. 30 of 2002 on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

"Right now, the government is engaged in a skirmish of sorts, fighting for the substances of revision over the KPK Law initiated by the DPR, as I have mentioned earlier," Jokowi noted here on Monday.

The government and DPR are currently deliberating a bill on revision over the KPK Law. The DPR's Legislative Body submitted the bill on September 3, 2019, and the deliberation is expected to be completed at a plenary meeting on September 24, 2019.

"Concerning the KPK Law revision, it is in the DPR....