The House Legislation Body (Baleg) has resolved 3,172, or almost half, of 6,652 problems on the bill’s inventory problem list (DIM). A bill is usually passed into law if lawmakers and the government have resolved all problems on the list.

Baleg chairman Supratman Andi Agtas told The Jakarta Post on Thursday that he was not sure the bill could be passed in August. "I can't be positive of that. It depends on the debate between the factions," he said.

Supratman said on Tuesday in a hearing with the government that among the unresolved problems were also 1,430 problems that required “editorial” revisions.

The Gerindra Party politician explained that the body had grouped the 1,430 problems into five categories, among them were those with the term "license" that would be changed into “business licensing” to comply with the government’s request. The term will be used in the articles that would hand over licensing authorities from local administrations to the central government. 

"If we could agree on them all, we would still have 2,050 problems,” said Supratman.

            The jobs bill, which consists of 15 chapters and 174 articles laid out over 1,000 pages, seeks to revise 79 laws and more than 1,200 articles considered to be impeding efforts to attract investment.

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