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Supreme Court vows to commit to judicial corruption eradication
The Supreme Court has taken several measures in an attempt to clean up judicial corruption and improve internal oversight after it was hit by a mega-corruption scandal that involved dozens of justices and workers.
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Supreme Court building in Central Jakarta. (Courtesy of the Supreme Court/-)
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he Supreme Court has taken several measures in an attempt to clean up judicial corruption and improving internal oversight after it was hit by a mega-corruption scandal that involved dozens of justices and workers.
However, critics have said a thorough reform is needed to ensure that corruption is eradicated from the highest court.
On Dec. 19, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named another alleged graft-case suspect Edy Wibowo, a judicial justice, for accepting Rp 3.7 billion (US$237,656) in bribery in return for a Supreme Court appellate ruling favoring Sandi Karsa Makassar Hospital, South Sulawesi.
Edy was the 14th Supreme Court official named as a suspect in the case. In early December, KPK named inactive Justice Gazalba Saleh for alleged involvement in the bribery, following the arrest of Civil Chamber Justice Sudrajad Dimyati in September.
The large number of arrests of justices and workers in alleged bribery has scarred the country's highest court’s integrity, prompting calls to thoroughly reform the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court spokesperson Sobandi said that the highest court had suspended all the alleged suspects and imposed sanctions on several high-ranking officials who failed to supervise their subordinates involved in alleged corruption, stopping short of specifying the names.
The Supreme Court also promised to eradicate corruption or case brokering by improving oversight mechanisms and imposing strict sanctions on those involved.
