Reviving omnibus law: Legal option for better coherence - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo unveiled in his inaugural speech a “new” kind of initiative to form omnibus laws. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines “omnibus” as “a volume containing several books previously published separately”, among other definitions. In the latest Black’s Law Dictionary 10th Edition the term “omnibus bill” is, among other ways, defined as follows, “(1) A single bill containing various distinct matters, usually drafted […] to force the executive either to accept all the unrelated minor provisions or veto the major provision; and (2) A bill that deals with all proposals relating to a particular subject, such as […] an ‘omnibus crime bill’ dealing with different subjects such as new crimes and grants to states for crime control.” The Ja...

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