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AGO to hand in response on team recommendation today

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 11/21/2009 9:40 AM
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Attorney General Hendarman Supandji will hand his office's analysis on recommendations of presidential fact-finding team into the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) debacle to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday.

“President gave the Attorney General time until Saturday morning to analyze the recommendation,” Didiek Darmanto, spokesman of the Attoreny General's Office, said Friday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri will also hand in the same response to the president on Saturday.

The debacle revolves around an alleged conspiracy between high-ranking officers at the National Police and the AGO to undermine the KPK by framing two of its deputy chairmen, Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah, for bribery and abuse of power.

A mounting public outcry against the perceived criminalization of Bibit and Chandra forced Yudhoyono to establish the fact-finding team. In its final recommendation, delivered to the President on Tuesday, the team called for the charges against Bibit and Chandra to be dropped.

The team also recommended that both the AGO and the police be reformed, and that all high-ranking officers implicated in the conspiracy be punished.

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