Letters: KPK and corruption

The police have declared two KPK deputy chairmen suspects in a case of abuse of power. Soon they will have to be suspended from their posts at the KPK.

The latest deliberation by the House of Representatives, the Attorney General's Office and the police to dismantle the KPK's special authority to investigate, wiretap and prosecute is clear proof that the KPK is fighting a lone battle to eradicate corruption.

The President's stand in watching this "due legal process" from the sidelines and refraining form interfering is quite understandable, given his circumstances.

A personal grudge against the current KPK seems justified. Furthermore, the KPK, which supported his anticorruption efforts throughout his first term in office, is now being abandoned because his second term in office is already guaranteed.

With this lack of support, there is no other option for the remaining commissioners than to resign and leave the anticorruption efforts to the President and his existing and ineffective law enforcement agencies. It will be back to business as before.

As already experienced so many times in our history, serious and deliberate anticorruption efforts are once again doomed.

Soebagjo Soetadji
Jakarta