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National scene: Jokowi will not intervene in Bambang's case
JAKARTA: Attorney General M
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AKARTA: Attorney General M. Prasetyo said that President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo would not interfere in the legal process against former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto.
'I'm convinced that the President will not intervene in the ongoing legal process,' Prasetyo said on Friday.
Prasetyo also said that there had been no talk of dropping the prosecution of Bambang.
Jokowi said last week that he would consider instructing prosecutors to stop investigating the case involving Bambang, who has been accused of demanding a witness to falsify testimony in a 2010 regional election dispute case in Central Kalimantan.
Jokowi made the statement following a call from dozens of scholars from various disciplines who said that the police had no adequate evidence to continue with Bambang's case. The scholars also said that the police had violated existing regulations both when they listed Bambang a suspect, and when they carried out the investigation.
