Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said Friday that several articles in the Military Criminal Code, mainly pertaining to prosecution of Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel, needed amendment.

"Current practices put a soldier committing a civil crime under (jurisdiction of) a military tribunal, while paragraph 2 of article 65 of the military law clearly stipulates that a military soldier is under a (civilian) district court," he said.

However, in the absence of regulations to implement the 2004 law, the state has been forced to maintain the use of the Military Criminal Code. "Therefore, we need to amend the Military Criminal Code and the military tribunal itself," the minister said.