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Police, AGO, KPK meet to improve anticorruption measures
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office held a three-party meeting to increase coordination in handling corruption cases, including the Bank Century bailout case
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office held a three-party meeting to increase coordination in handling corruption cases, including the Bank Century bailout case.
Heads of the three institutions, including interim Attorney General Darmono, National Police chief detective Comr. Gen. Ito Sumardi and KPK deputy Bibit Samad Rianto, met for about an hour at the AGO in South Jakarta on Monday.
The three institutions will each draw up reports to track their progress in dealing with the Bank Century case, Darmono said. He added that the reports would result in a comprehensive set of information that would prevent “misinterpretations”.
“We will share results on the alleged corruption in the Bank Century case once we have drawn up comprehensive reports,” he said.
The Bank Century case involved a disbursement totaling Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716 million) in Bank Indonesia liquidity support to bailout the now-defunct Bank Century in 2008. Legislators then deemed the bailout as unjustified and hence, illegal, early last year.
Darmono added that the three institutions also discussed ways to improve inter-institutional cooperation in dealing with corruption cases during the meeting. “We have decided that we will meet once every two months,” he said, adding that the meetings would be held to discuss ways to overcome obstacles that arose while investigating corruption cases.
He further said that the three institutions needed to draw up an MoU to legally strengthen the coordination efforts. “The technical aspects [of coordination] can then be outlined further,” he stated.
Deputy attorney for supervision Marwan Effendy said that the memorandum would be signed after the new heads had been officially installed in the three institutions. The institutions are undergoing a change in leadership, which President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will officially settle before the year’s end.
Marwan added that the MoU was necessary to prevent investigation overlaps, which was one of
the problems faced by the three institutions.
“The KPK will have to inform the AGO and police about the investigations they are working on,” he said.
Emerson Yuntho, vice-coordinator at Indonesia Corruption Watch, said the MoU would be important in boosting the eradication of corruption and law mafia eradication. However, he cited the poor implementation of previous MoUs.
“The memorandum requires the political will of the three institutions’ chiefs,” he said. (gzl)
