Pingit Aria, Jakarta – The likelihood that the police will commit human rights on suspected terrorists will increase if their detention period is extended to more than seven days.

"During interrogation, more violations are likely to happen," said Edwin Partogi, Politics, Justice and Human Rights Division staff at the Commission for Missing Persons & Victims of Violence (Kontras), yesterday.

According to Edwin, even with Law no. 15/2003 on Terrorism currently valid, human rights violations are still being committed. A person who is being questioned without the presence of a lawyer is very likely to happen. "They can be trapped by misleading questions, abuse could also take place," Edwin said.

The National Police headquarters felt that seven days was not enough to prove the involvement of a detainee. They want to revise the law. "The time set in the law is very short, yet uncovering a terrorist case is very difficult," the police's spokesperson Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang, said on Wednesday.