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View all search resultsICW reports KPK situation to UNODC
An anticorruption coalition reported to the United Nations representative in Jakarta, Wednesday, the current measures being taken to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) authority
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n anticorruption coalition reported to the United Nations representative in Jakarta, Wednesday, the current measures being taken to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) authority.
"We are concerned about the future of the KPK after two KPK deputies were declared suspects by the police. This does not only weaken the KPK but all anticorruption efforts in Indonesia," Indonesia Corruption Watch coordinator Danang Widoyoko said to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)'s representative Ajit Joy on Wednesday.
The police declared two KPK deputy chairmen - Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto - suspects Tuesday in an alleged extortion and authority abuse case relating to the imposition of a travel ban on Anggoro Widjojo (a KPK suspect in a Forestry Ministry graft case) and the lifting of a travel ban Djoko S. Tjandra (a suspect in the Bank Bali case).
The coalition members initiated stopping the efforts through the international community. "We are using an international mechanism to influence the government to put us back on the right track."
Danang believed the UN office in Indonesia could do something to help solve the anticorruption crisis as Indonesia was a signatory of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).
Commenting on the request, Ajit said he was unsure if there was any special rapporteur mechanism under the UNCAC, but promised to send the report submitted by the coalition to the UNODC headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
Meanwhile, KPK deputy chairman M. Jasin confirmed that neither he nor his colleague Haryono Umar intended to resign amid the many problems faced by the antigraft commission.
"We shall continue doing our job because we are not chosen to resign but to work, so we will work consistently".
He said even with only two deputy chairmen left, they could still do their job, as the 2002 law on the KPK did not require a minimum number of chairmen to enable decisions to be made, but only stipulated any decision made by the KPK should be taken collectively and collegially.
