Police absence forces Century probe meeting postponement

The Century Bank graft case monitoring meeting was postponed due to incomplete attendance. Attended by inter-commission lawmakers, law enforcers from the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), the National Police Headquarters and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had been invited to the meeting.

However, almost an hour after the meeting was to start, representatives from the National Police still had not shown up.

“We highly recommend delaying this meeting because we are seeing incomplete attendance,” Fachri Hamzah, a lawmaker from the Justice Prosperous Party (PKS), told other invitees Thursday.

However, Akbar Faisal from the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) argued that delaying the meeting would stall them in solving the problem.

“Let us use this meeting to ask those who have made it to come. We can invite the police to another meeting,” he said.

The chairman of the meeting, House deputy speaker Anies Matta, finally decided to postpone the meeting until next week.

The meeting was aimed at questioning the progress of the investigation, which is currently being handled by the KPK. The lawmakers wanted to know whether there were problems that had hampered the investigation, since lawmakers were united in stating that there was overwhelming indications of corruption behind the Rp 6.7 trillion Century Bank bailout.