THE parliament voted to pass President Joko Widodo’s emergency decree to cement rules on investment and jobs in South-East Asia’s biggest economy, replacing a similar 2020 law that had been ruled partially unconstitutional.
The law, which revises more than 70 other laws, has been praised by foreign investors for streamlining business rules, but also criticised by labour and green groups as being too pro-business.
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