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Text Your Say: Budi Gunawan suspect status invalid
Not happy: Anticorruption activists demonstrate at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) office in Jakarta on Monday after a pretrial hearing at the South Jakarta District Court annulled the suspect status of Comr
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span class="inline inline-center">Not happy: Anticorruption activists demonstrate at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) office in Jakarta on Monday after a pretrial hearing at the South Jakarta District Court annulled the suspect status of Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan. The protesters demanded that President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo not inaugurate Budi as National Police chief. JP/DON
Your comments on the South Jakarta District Court's decision to uphold the legal challenge of National Police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan against the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) move to declare him a graft suspect:
Judge Sarpin Rizaldi made this judicial decision. I leave aside the question of whether the decision is legally correct or ethically convincing. But from the media reaction it's clear Sarpin's decision is highly controversial.
Thus, my question to President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo is this: With a judiciary that produces judges like Sarpin, how can you pursue death sentences based on decisions made by this kind of judiciary?
You are under a moral obligation to immediately decree a moratorium on the execution of all death sentences until the judiciary is thoroughly reformed.
Implementing death sentences meted out by the judiciary like ours is a crime.
Franz Magnis-Suseno
Jakarta
Should the all the KPK leaders step down? Should they vote with their feet and stop trying to do an impossible job without themselves being prosecuted?
In most countries, if you had bank accounts with millions of dollars and a salary in the thousands, then the authorities would be asking why.
Sjaellis
The KPK is dead. Most people expected the verdict to turn out this way but prayed that it wouldn't. Too many crooks run this country and we have voted for a wimp. What do you expect?
Does Jokowi have the guts to use his prerogative not to inaugurate Budi? If he has, it will be a miracle. The guy has no balls.
Pauloh
If the KPK appeals, then later on it will get really ugly when the Supreme Court overturns the verdict, which is most likely.
Devin
The KPK has been beheaded. They will replace the KPK commissioners with a new team that's very docile and abides by its master.
Sukajadi
It is simply ridiculous. What has Indonesia come to? This verdict will have big repercussions. In the future, anyone declared a suspect by the KPK will push for a pretrial hearing to reject that status, including former religious affairs minister Suryadharma (who is probably still very sick).
Norris
I'm grateful for the clarity. Everything is now clear. Jokowi is Megawati's puppet and he has to protect his patron and empress.
To do so, the KPK must be destroyed. Jokowi tried to avoid that but couldn't resist big mama in the end. Now Jokowi has his 'cover' in the form of this decision, he must appoint Budi, which guarantees the death of the KPK.
The House of Representatives and police have wanted the KPK dead from the beginning and now they see their moment they are going all out for the target. The pre-trial fiasco is a corruptors' charter. It may go to the Supreme Court but now the House will come together as one. It smells the KPK's blood.
With the targeting of Abraham, criminal charges against the leaders of the KPK and clearly bribed judges, it is certain the KPK will be shut down and replaced by a proper, regulated body controlled by the House.
Note that the attacks against the KPK have been multiple and rapid - all out war. Last night there were claims the KPK was controlled by the Islamic State (IS) organization!
Atom
Again, justice and transparency are being tormented by a lust for power. RIP.
Marsilla Dewi Colen
The judge's decision is laughable to say the least and makes a mockery of the justice system in the country.
Jaytee
Congratulations to Budi Gunawan. RIP KPK.
Fajar Perhimpunan Sitorus
Weird things can happen and this is one of those things.
Sometimes we don't know what is really happening.
There's a family. The father is a police officer and his teenage son received a big money loan from bank. On the surface, what's wrong with this? The story goes on and on. Like a puzzle, it's too big and complicated to be solved in a short space of time. Just forget it.
Eddy Arjuna Zainy
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Topic of the day
Budi's suspect status invalid
The South Jakarta District Court has upheld the legal challenge by National Police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan against the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) decision to declare him a graft suspect.
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