Subversion law repeal `too risky'

JAKARTA - Indonesia's military is against repealing a longstanding anti subversion law but says it could be revised, the official…

JAKARTA - Indonesia's military is against repealing a longstanding anti subversion law but says it could be revised, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday.

The controversial law, with a broad definition of subversion, was used widely in the turbulent 1960s against the now banned Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI).

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