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We must not be defeated by corrupt people: KPK leader
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Laode Muhammad Syarif talks to The Jakarta Post about current investigations and addresses criticisms against the antigraft body
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Deputy chairman of Corruption Eradication Commission Laode M. Syarif (central), accompanied by another deputy chairman Saut Situmorang (left) and KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah speaks during a press conference on the new suspects related to graft in the disbursement of Bank Indonesia Liquidity Support (BLBI) in KPK headquarters on June 10. (Antara/Reno Esnir)
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n an interview with The Jakarta Post, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Laode Muhammad Syarif discussed the legacy to be left by the current commission to the country, his work as the antigraft body’s leader and terror attacks against him and other KPK employees. The following are excerpts from the interview with the Post’s Kharishar Kahfi.
Question: Late last year, you said that you would push for a draft revision of the 2001 Corruption Law as part of your legacy as KPK commissioner. How is that going?
Answer: We have finished the draft and have handed it over informally to the President and other parties in the government, hoping it will be deliberated by them along with the House of Representatives in the near future. They’ve said they will study it first.
We have been pushing for the law to be revised for a long time because our current Corruption Law is still lacking in several respects such as provisions on corruption in the private sector, illicit enrichment as well as asset recovery, according to reviews by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other countries. Those provisions were included in the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), which we ratified in 2006.
The current KPK leadership is often criticized for failing to solve certain cases, including the graft cases in state-owned port operator PT Pelindo II implicating its former president director Richard Joost Lino and the one in national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia implicating former president director Emirsyah Satar as a suspect. Will the cases in these state-owned companies be solved within the last six months of your term?
