While there may be agreement that the Code needs a major revision, it remains to be seen whether Congress and the White House have the political will to accomplish this goal.
Andi Hamzah, a University of Indonesia law professor who worked on the 1980s draft criminal code, said the revision effort then devolved into endless debate among people of diverse political and religious viewpoints.
He was giving evidence on 6 December 2010 as part of a session on a revision to the Department for Communities and Local Government's code of practice on local authority publicity.