In what many deemed a disappointing, confusing and anti-climactic outcome, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday night said the case the police had built against two leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra Hamzah, should not go to court.
Yudhoyono did not make it clear, however, as to whether the investigations being conducted by the police and the Attorney General's Office (AGO) into the two KPK deputy chiefs, which is believed to have been a conspiracy to frame them, should be dropped as recommended by the fact-finding team he appointed this month especially to investigate the alleged framing.
Your comments:
From hero to zero. Two weeks just to come up with that?
The heads of the police, the KPK and the AGO should have all been sacked as entire country has a lack of trust in them.
All should be replaced by people who have proven track records and don't wear Rolex watches.
Rahadi Widodo
Jakarta
How gutless. We elected this man to lead us forward, to reform, to clean up, but he's proving to be little different to the ugly old ways. Resign, SBY, so that the nation has a chance to go forward.
Alan J
Denpasar
I don't think it will spark another dispute if the President drops the case only based on the recommendation of the fact-finding Team 8. If we commit to the supremacy of the law, all people are innocent until proven guilty by the courts, which are mandated by the Constitution.
Aris Abdillah
Samarinda
Disappointed!? The President could have taken a more decisive role here. He is a president that was not chosen by the parliament but by the people.
Since he has a comfortable majority in the parliament and the monumental election victory he was rewarded by all Indonesians, he should have cleaned up the police department and the AGO office right now.
But then we the people do not know what kind of situation the President is in. After all he is surrounded by corrupt institutions and stereotyped state machinery that has only recently started to be scrutinized and punished for their foul play. We do not know the implication of a wide-ranging reform of institutions and sacking of the high officials at once.
Indonesia will need time to get rid of corruption and court mafia. Eradication of corruption by 100 percent is just like climbing a mountain head on - impossible. We will have to climb the mountain side ways, step by step, which will take time. We, the general public, are not in SBY's shoes.
By writing this in no way do I mean to support the controversial action of police and the AGO. We look forward to an Indonesia that is democratic in a true sense with good governance and transparency and, above all, free from corruption at all levels.
Shah Baten
London
I do really like SBY's response. We need a president like him. Bravo SBY.
Ardiyan
Tangerang, Banten
