Police cancel Kompas summons

Police have canceled summoning representatives of daily newspaper Kompas in a questioning on news items related to alleged bribery mastermind Anggodo Widjojo. It was not clear whether the police also canceled summoning representatives from Seputar Indonesia daily.
 
“Kompas has been told by the police that it was not necesarry to come to the National Police Headquarters,” the daily's chief editor Rikard Bagun told tempointeraktif.com on Friday.
 
The police, however, has yet to confirm the cancellation.
 
The summons, dated Nov. 18 and signed by the National Police director for economic and special crimes, Sr. Comr. Raja Erizman, ordered representatives from Kompas and Seputar Indonesia to come in for questioning at 10 a.m. Friday.
 
The representatives were asked to explain the trancript of the wiretapped conversation between Anggodo and others that was played during a Constitutional Court hearing on Nov. 3.
 
In the conversation, Anggodo was allegedly overheard speaking with a number of high-ranking officers from the National Police and the Attornery General's Office in a possible plot to frame Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputies Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah.