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Text your say: Samad briefly detained
Your comments on the brief detention of former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad by the police, in a situation similar to the previous detention of KPK commissioner Bambang Widjojanto and the more recent arrest of investigator Novel Baswedan:This whole farce will drag on and on, just to ensure Abraham and Bambang remains suspects until their terms are over and they cannot return to office
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Your comments on the brief detention of former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad by the police, in a situation similar to the previous detention of KPK commissioner Bambang Widjojanto and the more recent arrest of investigator Novel Baswedan:
This whole farce will drag on and on, just to ensure Abraham and Bambang remains suspects until their terms are over and they cannot return to office.
Kantisini
The drama has started; I can hardly wait to see how it will end. So many people have their interests to protect ' it could be a big surprise for a lot of people.
Eddy Arjuna Zainy
It's just like a soap opera. These are top police officials, supposedly intelligent people, but they act with such disregard for basic principles of professionalism.
I feel profoundly sorry for Pak Abraham Samad.
Gusti NK Hariawan
Well done Jokowi for calling for the police not to criminalize KPK commissioners.
That doesn't mean, though, that the KPK are allowed to criminalize the police.
E Nurdin
Jakarta
The cases against KPK commissioners Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto are just acts of retaliation.
The KPK leadership dared to challenge a police general's integrity.
In return, the police named the two commissioners as criminal suspects in cases long predating their joining the KPK.
That is why the two were immediately released after a brief symbolic detention.
The retaliation continues. Novel Baswedan was arrested for acts committed some decade ago, when he was still a mid-ranking police officer.
While he was active as a police officer, the case was left to lie dormant.
Soebagjo Soetadji
Jakarta
If only the police could be trusted as the KPK can, this power struggle would never have been started.
Let me make a suggestion that would do a lot to clean up corruption: all state-sector entrance examinations should be totally free, with no fee whatsoever.
I was a training director overseeing entrance examination results, and I saw much failure among new recruits who had paid their way through the entrance examinations.
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
Jakarta
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AGO, KPK, police joint task force
The Attorney General's Office (AGO), the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have agreed to establish a joint anticorruption task force to carry out joint investigations into certain graft cases amid rumors of conflict between the three. What do you think?
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