A couple of months that I’ve had a regular meeting at the Parliament every Thursday because I am sitting  in the Legislative Committees considering the amendment of Frequencies Regulator Bill ( The establishment of National Broadcast and Telecommunication Commission- NBTC).  This Bill was submitted to the Parliament again because the existing Frequencies Regulators Act enacted  in 2000 is contradicting to the 2007 Constitution, which says that only single regulator for both telecommunication and broadcast media while the 1997 Constitution said for two separate regulators. I’ve been doing and following this kind of stories since 1997 so it is more than a decade now.

Ten years ago I mobilized the advocacy campaigns in front of the Parliament when 2000 Act was discussed,currently I sit in the meeting room arguing the current amendment for this Bill.  I am growing up with  it through mistakes and success.  However, I am rather happy to do this role so far, learning a lot and knowing many more people. Possibly I am interested in the role of parliamentary members . Should I join New Politics Party?  Would they accept me,?I am just kidding The new colors of New Politics Party, connected to People Alliance for Democracy (PAD) are Yellow+Green. I will write about it later.

Today I have to go to the Parliament again for this work from 9.30 am to 4.oo pm .

It is such a long story to describe about the ongoing debates for this bill, for brief summary, we got the conclusion for having 11 commissioner selected from 5 sectors.  Details will be told later but good news for me that I could put the discourse referring to ‘right&freedom’ or ‘civil liberty’ into this bill with the support from most of the committees but after arguing for several weeks.

Though it might not mean anything but I am just feeling happy that I could do this.

You may follow the meeting minute from last week from this link

Tags: Frequencies Regulator, NBTC