Task force achievements over two years

1. The task force handling of a judicial mafia case involving junior tax official Gayus H. Tambunan resulted in ongoing reforms at the tax tribunal. The Finance Ministry formed a tax tribunal reform team to push for transparency, better recruitment of judges and stricter supervision. The ministry also launched an investigation audit on the handling of appeals by taxpayers under the supervision of the KPK, requiring all top officials to submit wealth reports and also building a quality assurance system for tax audit, and including an infrastructure provision related to a whistle blowing system.

2. The task force’s crackdown on a luxurious prison cell holding graft convict Artalyta Suryani resulted in the improvement of supervision at detention centers and penitentiaries. The task force also pushed for the tightening of sentence cuts for graft convicts.

3. A follow up to an alleged tax evasion worth around Rp 1.3 trillion (US$144 million) involving PT Asian Agri Group, which was uncovered by the company’s auditor Vincentius Sutanto, encouraged law enforcement agencies to sign a joint agreement on the protection of justice collaborators, or people who were involved in graft cases but were willing to provide testimony to drag down the masterminds of the cases in exchange for more lenient sentences.

4. This year’s Presidential Instruction on the elimination of the judicial mafia resulted in several working plans:

• Requiring stricter promotion processes for high-ranking officials at law enforcement agencies through the involvement of a money laundering watchdog.

• Standard operating procedures (SOPs) for case handling by the police and AGO, as well as SOPs on detention.

• Strengthening internal and external supervision.

• Strengthening transparency.

• Improving the recruitment systems of personnel, providing a sufficient system to receive public complaints and facilitating whistle blowers.

5. Following indications of judicial mafia involvement, the task force demanded that police reopen investigations into 14 cases of illegal logging in Riau, all of which had previously been terminated by the police.

The task force received 4,900 public reports of corruption by law enforcement officials.

Of these reports, 126 had strong indications of judicial mafia involvement. The task force forwarded the reports to the respective agencies and monitored their handling. The police, the AGO and the court of law received the most complaints.