The original drafters of the state secrecy bill say that both legislators and the executive branch have ruined the bill by turning it into a weapon to limit public access to information.

"The original name of the bill was the 'strategic information protection bill'. We made the bill based on the spirit of protecting the country's strategic information when we designed it," one of the original drafters, Kusnanto Anggoro, said during a discussion Thursday.

"We then sent the bill to the House. After a while, we found out that the bill's substance and content were slowly being altered. Gradually the bill's content got worse and worse and it became totally different from the original," Kusnanto, who is also an intelligence expert from the University of Indonesia (UI), added.

Kusnanto's fellow drafter and UI colleague, Makmur Keliat, said the original bill only included national security-related information as confidential.

"However, the latest draft includes public information as confidential," he said.