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Activists report judge Cepi for alleged ethics breach
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Cepi Iskandar leads the pretrial hearing requested by Setya Novanto, a Golkar Party politician and the House of Representatives speaker, at the South Jakarta District Court, on Sept. 22. (Antara/Rivan Awal Lingga)
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ctivists grouped under the Coalition of Civil Society for Anticorruption filed a report with the Supreme Court's internal monitoring body against a judge who ruled in favor of politician Setya Novanto in his pretrial hearing.
The judge in question is Cepi Iskandar of the South Jakarta District Court, who recently annulled the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) decision to name Setya a suspect in the high-profile e-ID graft case.
"We want the Supreme Court to investigate the matter, particularly due to several [alleged] irregularities that came to surface during the pretrial process," activist Kurnia Ramadhana from the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) told reporters after filing the report on Thursday.
Kurnia was referring to the ICW's findings, which include, among others, Cepi's rejection of the KPK's request to present and play a recording that reportedly implicated Setya in the case. The ICW has also questioned Cepi's impartiality since, in the hearings, he raised the issue of the KPK's status as an ad-hoc institution, which, according to the ICW, was irrelevant to the pretrial motion.
Earlier, the Golkar Party Youth Movement Group (GMPG) reported Cepi to the Judicial Commission over the same accusations.
Like the Supreme Court, the Judicial Commission has the power to investigate the alleged ethics violations of judges. (ipa)
