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he National Police’s Traffic Directorate has won three Open Government Indonesia (OGI) awards for its public services amid the high-profile corruption case surrounding the corps, which has triggered a heated standoff between the police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

The National Traffic Management Center (NTMC) won an award in the most progressive service category, while the Driving License Administration Unit won two awards in the most progressive service and the most preferred service categories.

“In this kind of atmosphere, we should give sincere appreciation to the police force. They have made efforts to improve their public services. Indeed the police need improvements in other aspects,” Vice President Boediono during the award ceremony.

The OGI was contested for the first time this year and was initiated by the Presidential Working Unit for Supervision and Management of Development (UKP4).

The 2012 OGI competition involved 62 public service units run by 24 state bodies.

UKP4 hired juries to score the participants in the “Most Progressive Service” category while the scoring of the “Most Preferred Service” category was based on public votes at the organizer’s website www.kompetisiog.com.

The Trade Ministry, the Education and Culture Ministry, the National Food and Drug Agency (Badan POM), and the National Land Agency (BPN) also won in the most progressive service category.

The Indonesian National Archives (ANRI), National Narcotics Agency (BNN), the Indonesian Nuclear Power Control Body (Bapeten) and the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) won in the most preferred service category.

Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo, former head of the Traffic Police Corps, now governor of the Police Academy, is a suspect in a graft case surrounding the procurement of driving simulators at the division. He is the first active-duty police general to be named a graft suspect by the KPK and has been charged with abusing his authority to enrich himself and others while causing state losses.

Defying calls for the investigation to be solely handled by the KPK, the police have forcibly taken over part of the antigraft body’s probe into the case.

Meanwhile, the head of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK), Muhammad Yusuf, said on Friday that his agency recorded a suspicious transaction in the bank account of one suspect in the case.

“The suspicious transaction is worth more than Rp 10 billion,” Yusuf told reporters after a meeting with KPK leaders on Friday. Yusuf said that the National Police requested the same information in 2011.