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A closed-door meeting between the Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO), the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Monday agreed that the police would stop all probes into the KPK investigators that were looking into a bribery case alleging the involvement of deputy National Police chief Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan.

The agreement was made after tensions between the two institutions further escalated following the arrest of KPK investigator Novel Baswedan by the police on Friday.

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Of course it was behind closed doors! If the meeting had been held in a public forum it could possibly have opened up the whole can of worms and exposed a number of shadowy manipulators.

These manipulators have already brought enough shame and ridicule on the nation.

They are too blind, power-hungry and greedy to see it, and they are bent on covering their backs however possible.

If the whole sorry saga were not so serious it could be seen as yet another laughable Indonesian political tragicomedy.  

In this case, though, neither the nation nor the world at large is laughing. I suppose, however, something finally had to be seen to be done '€” or not be seen to be done.

And so the leadership struggle continues while the ship of state drifts on rudderless.

May Ling Pfe

So a policeman with millions of dollars in his bank accounts has nothing done to him, but a bunch of mainly foreign drug smugglers are eagerly executed. Very classy, Indonesia.

Benam