Chief detective slaps investigators over Anas’s Blitar questioning

Chief Detective Comr. Gen. Sutarman revealed that he had reprimanded the investigators who questioned Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum in Blitar recently.

He said that the questioning might be in line with procedures, but surely violated the “public's sense of justice”.

“I have summoned them and told them not to do it again in the future because it surely hurt the public's sense of justice. I must highlight that from now on, we are obliged to pay serious attention to the public's sense of justice as well as when investigating a case,” he said on Friday as quoted by tribunnews.com.

The statement was a response to criticism from activists and law experts, who questioned the police's decision to question Anas while he was in Blitar, East Java, which they said showed that the police were kowtowing to the ruling political party.

Anas had been summoned as a witness to clarify his own report about former party colleague Muhammad Nazaruddin over libel charges. Nazaruddin, who has been named a graft suspect by the Corruption Eradication Commission, remains at large, possibly overseas.