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Right of inquiry aims to keep KPK on track: Hanura
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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 testimonies in the e-ID graft case hearing on March 30. In the hearing, they were confronted by House of Representatives member Miryam S. Haryani (second left) of the Hanura Party on her alleged involvement in the case.
(Antara/Sigid Kurniawan)
D
adang Rusdiana, the secretary of the Hanura Party faction at the House of Representatives, said on Friday the House’s plan to exercise its right to inquiry against the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) was not an attempt to weaken the anti-graft body but instead, aimed to keep it “on the right track."
It is expected the right of inquiry will remind the KPK to work in line with its main duties and functions and in accordance with the law, he went on.
“The inquiry will strengthen the KPK and it has nothing to do with any attempt to weaken the body. We have to guarantee that the KPK is on the right track,” Dadang said at the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Friday.
(Read also: House approves right of inquiry request against KPK)
Hanura is the only faction that has firmly supported the House’s plan to exercise its inquiry right against the KPK from the very beginning.
The proposal was submitted by the House’s Commission III, which oversees legal affairs, during a hearing on April 18-19. In the meeting, House members asked the KPK to open the investigation document of Miryam S. Haryani, former House member implicated in the e-ID graft case.
In a plenary session on Friday, the majority of House factions approved the inquiry right proposal, they deemed it necessary to prove whether or not there was pressure on Miryam during the KPK’s investigation into the case. (dis/ebf)
