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KPK says it will stick to rules over investigation confidentiality
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Suspected: Three Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators Novel Baswedan (right), Ambarita Damanik (second right) and M. Irwan Santoso (left) get prepared to give testiimonies in the e-ID graft case hearing on March 30. In the hearing, they were confronted with House of Representatives former member Miryam S. Haryani (second left) of the Hanura Party on her alleged involvement in the case.
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orruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Laode Muhammad Syarif has asserted the anti-graft body will adhere to existing investigation confidentiality rules although the House of Representatives is set to use its right of inquiry to open the investigation report (BAP) of the e-ID graft case, which implicates several of its members.
Syarif said the House’s decision to approve the right of inquiry against the commission could hamper legal processes of corruption cases in Indonesia.
“Records and investigation reports can only be shown in court,” Syarif told The Jakarta Post on Friday, responding to the House’s decision to approve the right of inquiry proposal against the KPK that was approved in a plenary session on Friday.
(Read also: House approves right of inquiry request against KPK)
Syarif asserted uncovering evidence, including the recording of investigations, could obstruct ongoing legal processes and might have an impact in the handling of corruption cases, in this regard the e-ID case.
“Any attempts to hinder the handling of corruption cases, including the e-ID graft case, will be rejected by the KPK," Syarif said.
The House approved the right of inquiry proposal although several political party factions rejected it. The proposal appeared during a hearing between KPK commissioners and members of the House’s Commission III, which oversees legal affairs, on April 18 to 19.
In the meeting, several House members demanded the KPK to open the BAP of former House Commission II member, Miryam S. Haryani. The KPK has named Miryam, a Hanura Party politician, a perjury suspect and put her on its most wanted list. (mrc/dis/ebf)
