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KPK: We Can't Control Nazaruddin
Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ulma Haryanto | May 28, 2011

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didikarjadi
8:35pm May 28, 2011

"his dignity"?

Roland
12:52pm May 28, 2011

@agoz - agreed!

agoz
12:30pm May 28, 2011

if Bambang Wijoyanto (former ICW Leader) was appointed as the KPK Chief, i think there will be a different action to be taken. Busro is a weak person.

padt
11:27am May 28, 2011

What's the fuss? He gave assurances he would return after he received his medical results. After all - he is an Indonesian political figure - and therefore his word is his bond. As with other Indonesian political figures and public officials, it would not cross his mind to make a false statement.

Surely that's the case in this moral country?

Like hell it is!!!!

Do you know why the radicals and extremists are gaining ground and religious and political intolerance is gaining ground in Indonesia?

It's because of people like this fellow and his mates protecting him - the lot of them up to their neck in corruption. And as these people get richer and richer - and nothing of the financial development of Indonesia flows down among the people - so people out in the poor towns and suburbs and in the villages are beginning to ask: "So this is democracy is it? After 12 years or so after the the overthrow of Soeharta, things haven't got any better for the average Indonesian - the only thing that has developed is corruption - and the elite and the scum politicians are getting richer at our expense. What's the benefit then in this so called democracy? Better an Islamic state under sharia law." That's what the extremists are thinking.

If you want a backward country and sharia law in a theocratic state deprived of human rights - then continue to tolerate this 'legal' claptrap and allow people like Nazaruddin to thumb his nose at the law, democracy and justice. And you will eventually hand this country over to the extremists on a platter.

And then you will have, as in Iran and Saudi Arabia - a new rich elite - of Muslim hardliners.

It wont be extremists who break up this country initially - although they will do that when they get into power - the first people to destroy this country are that mob up in the House of Representatives, the regional governors and mayors, the members of the political parties.

And keep in mind - a fish rots from its head down.


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The Corruption Eradication Commission’s chief said Muhammad Nazaruddin’s leaving the country had stalled its investigation against the lawmaker, but that the antigraft body was powerless to compel him to return.

“If he took off, well then it’s beyond our power,” Busyro Muqoddas, chairman of the commission, also known as KPK, said on Friday.

Nazaruddin, who was accused of taking bribes from a construction company that won the contract to build an athletes’ village in Palembang for the Southeast Asian Games in November, left for Singapore on Monday.

Nazaruddin has also been accused of giving Constitutional Court secretary Janedjri M. Gaffar envelopes containing 120,000 Singapore dollars ($96,000) in September as “friendship gifts,” according to court chief Mahfud M.D.

Justice Minister Patrialis Akbar said the lawmaker departed on a Garuda Indonesia flight at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, a day before the KPK had a travel ban against Nazaruddin approved.

Busyro said the KPK requested the ban because it believed “Nazaruddin played an important role [in the scandal].”

“His statements to the media show this,” the chairman said.

However, Busyro said that when the KPK announced last week that they were going to summon Nazaruddin, it counted “on the goodwill of the Democratic Party not to allow [the lawmaker] to leave.”

Nevertheless, Busyro said Nazaruddin could “go wherever he wanted” because the travel ban had not yet been approved when he went abroad.

“We have to respect his rights, his dignity,” Busyro said. “We hope Nazaruddin will come back soon. Our investigation is sterilized from political interests. We guarantee this.”

Busyro said Nazaruddin had not yet been named a suspect in the case and had been summoned as a witness.

Asked whether Nazaruddin’s passport would be revoked, Busyro said the decision would have to wait until next week, when Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng was scheduled to be interrogated by the antigraft body.

Part of the kickbacks in the Rp 3.2 billion ($373 million) SEA Games bribery scandal were allegedly set aside for Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry secretary Wafid Muharram, who was detained months ago over the controversy.

The Democratic Party’s faction secretary at the House of Representatives, Saan Mustopha, said on Friday that Nazaruddin had formally asked permission from the party to allow him to go to Singapore. “He told us that he would go there for a heart checkup,” Saan said.

But Benny K. Harman, Nazaruddin’s fellow member on House Commission III overseeing legal affairs, called for Nazaruddin to immediately return to Indonesia to face the KPK.