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Budi must step down if he declines to report wealth: Kontras
Coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Haris Azhar, criticized the chief of the policeâs Detective Corps, Comr
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oordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Haris Azhar, criticized the chief of the police's Detective Corps, Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso, for his reluctance to report his wealth to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) as required by the law.
As a public official, Budi is required by the 1999 Clean Governance Law to report his wealth to the commission.
'If he does not want to comply with such a procedure, he should not have become a public official,' kompas.com quoted Haris as saying in Jakarta on Friday.
Haris said Budi's resistant stance could spread to other police officials and undermine the corruption eradication agenda.
'He is building a bad precedent that could be followed by other police officials not reporting their wealth. It is dangerous,' he said.
Budi, who took up his current job on Jan. 19, 2015, said he would report his wealth and challenged the commission to trace it objectively because not giving a report on wealth to the commission was not a crime. (rms) (++++)
