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Novel'€™s wife thanks supporters on petition page

The wife of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan, Rina Emilda, has thanked signatories to her petition on website change

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Sun, May 3, 2015

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Novel'€™s wife thanks supporters on petition page

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he wife of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan, Rina Emilda, has thanked signatories to her petition on website change.org following her husband'€™s recent release .

'€œThank you! Finally, Novel Baswedan has been released,'€ she said in a statement on the petition page on Sunday.

Rina launched the petition entitled '€œFree Novel Baswedan!'€ on Friday, after the arrest of Novel by the National Police's Criminal Investigation Directorate at his house in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, for his alleged involvement in an assault case in 2004.

The National Police suspended the detention of Novel on Saturday after the leaders of the KPK struck a deal with the National Police.

The arrest is widely viewed as a further effort to weaken the antigraft body.

Rina'€™s petition initially revealed the chronology of Novel'€™s arrest, from the police banging on the door of their house at midnight to Rina's difficulty in contacting Novel the following morning.

It also related how Novel's mother urged him not to drink anything while in detention and to beware of attempts to poison him.

'€œI believe in everything that he has done. It is all for this country, this nation,'€ she wrote.

In the recent update to the petition, she expressed her pleasure at welcoming Novel home and published a conversation she had had with Novel about the importance of upholding integrity as a law enforcer.

The petition garnered support from KPK-supporting netizens.

'€œI don'€™t like the way the police arrest people. KPK officials aren'€™t corruptors or criminals who will run away just like that. Why must the arrest take place at midnight?'€ a supporter with username Indah Widyastuti wrote.

The petition page had 21,713 supporters as of Sunday.(fsu)(+++)

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