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View all search resultsSupreme Court rulings `discourage graft fight'
ADPARA>JAKARTA: Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says the Supreme Court has discouraged the fight against corruption by reducing prison terms handed down to six high-profile graft convicts in 2009
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DPARA>JAKARTA: Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says the Supreme Court has discouraged the fight against corruption by reducing prison terms handed down to six high-profile graft convicts in 2009.
ICW said in a statement Thursday the Supreme Court rulings weakened the deterrent effect the country needed to combat widespread corruption.
The watchdog found the Supreme Court, for example, cut the jail sentence of former Pelalawan regent Tengku Azmun Jaafar by five years from the 16 years handed down by the Corruption Court; that of former Bank Indonesia governor Burhanuddin Abdullah by two years to three years; that of former House of Representatives lawmaker Al Amin Nur Nasution by two years from eight years; and the sentence of former fishery minister Rokhmin Dahuri from seven years to 4.5 years.
Rokhmin was released from prison on parole last November.
