Supreme Court must re-evaluate regional graft courts: ICW

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has urged the Supreme Court to re-evaluate its plan to set up regional graft across the country following the recent acquittal of four graft defendants by a panel of judges at Samarinda Corruption Court.

“We must think this over; whether we want to build graft courts in every [province], or if we should regroup them in some cities to enable better monitoring,” Emerson Yuntho of ICW said Friday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Emerson added that regional graft courts had been a disappointment in terms of their ability to contribute to corruption eradication, since the courts had released many graft defendants.