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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Monday met with former leaders of the Supreme Court (MA) and the Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO) to discuss a strategic plan to eradicate rampant corruption in the country for the new KPK leadership in the upcoming 2015-2019 period.

In addition to former MA chief justice Bagir Manan and former attorney general Basrief Arief, the KPK, which will welcome new commissioners in December, also invited Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung and Benny K. Harman, deputy of House of Representatives Commission III overseeing legal affairs, which supervises law enforcement agencies in the country, to attend the meeting at the KPK headquarters.

'€œWe want to have much input from all law-enforcement stakeholders regarding our strategic agenda in the future,'€ KPK deputy chairman Indriyanto Seno Adji told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

Indriyanto, a prominent law professor from the University of Indonesia, said that to ensure all future moves of the KPK to eradicate corruption in the country had academic merit, the antigraft body would invite academics, both supporters and fierce critics of the KPK, to hear their suggestions.

Senior legal expert Romli Atmasasmita of Bandung-based Padjadjaran University, who has issued antagonistic statements criticizing the KPK'€™s handling of graft cases, is among the experts set to discuss the KPK'€™s strategic agenda.

'€œWe have also listed some prominent figures on the invitation list. We did this for the sake of a better KPK in the future,'€ Indriyanto added.

After the discussion, Basrief said that he had told the KPK to focus on what he called '€œgrand corruption'€, a self-made terminology referring to the balanced efforts between active corruption prosecution and active corruption prevention.