Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government wants the House of Representatives to speed up the revision of the Anti-Terror Law, a senior minister said on Friday.

Amid rising global terror threats, the government should be ready to anticipate terror attacks that might occur, Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Luhut B. Pandjaitan said.

"I have delivered our concerns to the House members, [the revision progress] is too slow," Luhut said. The retired general plans to meet with House members involved in deliberating the Anti-Terror law revision to discuss accelerating the law strengthening process.

The deadly attack at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, on Thursday in which a truck plowed into a crowd of revelers, was seen by the Indonesian government as a warning of the evolving nature of terror threats.

The government plans to explore and strengthen defensive measures to prevent similar attacks from happening on Indonesian soil, Luhut said. (bbn)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/07/16/govt-wants-to-speed-up-anti-terror-law-revision.html