A plenary meeting at the House of Representatives decided Thursday to defy the Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) on the acting chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
House deputy speaker Anis Matta said that no legislators who attended the plenary meeting rejected the conclusion.
"Therefore, as of today, the 2009 Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) on KPK temporary leaders has been declared no longer effective," Anis of the Prosperous and Justice Party (PKS) said.
This means KPK acting chairman Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean will soon have to leave the antigraft body, awaiting a presidential decree on the dismissal.
Tumpak, a retired prosecutor, responded to the House decision to defy the Perppu by saying, "I will see it in a positive way."
A proposal to defy the Perppu came from the House Commission III on law and human rights, which on Tuesday decided that the regulation was no longer relevant to the current situation at the KPK.
"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at that time issued the Perppu in regard to the then situation at the KPK where the commission had only two chairmen left," a commission III member Nasir Djamil said.
Three of five KPK chairmen were then suspended due to legal charges.
KPK chairman Antasari Azhar was suspended due to a murder case in March last year while his two deputies, Bibit Samat Riyanto and Chandra M. Hamzah, were also suspended due to an alleged bribery case mid 2009.
However, the bribery was never proven and President Yudhoyono decided to reinstate Bibit and Chandra into their original positions.
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