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View all search results“The KPK is in a dilemma, for it now has to choose whether it wants to uphold its integrity as a law enforcement agency or to halt the case, given the fact that it involves members of a leading ruling party and that the KPK has become a part of the administration under the 2019 KPK Law.
Lawyers representing a coalition of civil society groups that are challenging the controversial 2019 Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law have complained about difficulties in securing evidence to support their petition for a judicial review of the recently enacted law.
A controversial amendment into the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has stripped special authorities of the anticorruption law enforcement body and turned it into a government institution.
If we want the diversity of interests to be governed democratically as an order, politics — instead of tyranny — makes up our human condition. Diversity of interests makes the adversarial nature of politics inescapable. An irony torments our wish; in politics, nothing prevents us from setbacks or decay despite our best efforts. This is what happened in the KPK Law revision.
The public has cast doubt over whether the newly installed KPK leaders, chairman Comr. Gen. Firli Bahuri and his deputies will make a difference. Such pessimism, however, should not matter to them as the public has always set the bar very high in the war on corruption.
The year 2019 should have been celebrated as the 20-year milestone for Indonesia’s fight against corruption. Instead, it may be largely remembered as the year the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and antigraft activists fought a losing battle.
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