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KPK Will Boycott Angelina’s Presence
Ezra Sihite | February 16, 2012

Graft suspect Angelina Sondakh, a suspended lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Party, testifies as a witness during the trial of Mohammed Nazaruddin, the former treasurer of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Graft suspect Angelina Sondakh, a suspended lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Party, testifies as a witness during the trial of Mohammed Nazaruddin, the former treasurer of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's party, at an anti-corruption court in Jakarta on Wednesday. Sondakh and Nazaruddin are both implicated in the high profile bribery case involving the construction of the Southeast Asian Games athlete's village. (AFP Photo)
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DrDez
7:31pm Feb 17, 2012

Normal - Your point is correct but the KPK can have her arrested if she is named a suspect and is likely to serve 5 years or more

Funny they can arrest a kid for bananas


indonuts
6:46pm Feb 17, 2012

A graft suspect moving into an anti-graft commission.... to spy perhaps? Is the Party declaring guilty already?

Valkyrie
11:30am Feb 17, 2012

Angie!...Angie....they're preparing a room for you at Pondok Bamboo next to Malinda.

everybodywin
10:16am Feb 17, 2012

Democrats dogs too afraid that angelina will drag another person from the party- like what nazarudin did if they simply detaine her from the house. Its clear that angelina not work for herself.


Normalaatsra
3:18am Feb 17, 2012

exbrit, KPK is a government program. The police will do the arresting and justice will do the punishment. You know the latter 2 are full of poop.

In a sign of more strained ties between lawmakers and antigraft investigators, Corruption Eradication Commission chairman Abraham Samad said he would not attend hearings with the commission overseeing legal affairs if graft suspect Angelina Sondakh was present.

The ruling Democratic Party controversially moved Angelina to House of Representatives Commission III on Tuesday in what Jafar Hafsah, the head of the Democratic faction at the House, called a “normal rotation.”

The antigraft organization known as the KPK last week named Angelina, the deputy secretary general of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party, a suspect in the graft case involving former party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin.

Despite Angelina’s status, the party did not remove her from the House or suspend her from the party’s post. The KPK has also not detained the former Indonesian beauty queen.

“Make no mistake, I won’t come to any hearing [with Commission III] if Angelina is there,” Abraham said.

He said he did not understand why the Democrats would move her to the commission, which works closely with the KPK.

“I just don’t know what they are thinking,” Abraham said.

Other factions in the House criticized the Democrats’ move and lauded Abraham for condemning it.

“Abraham’s stance has reaffirmed the KPK’s professionalism and neutrality,” said Ahmad Basarah, deputy secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

Commission III member Nasir Jamil of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) said he felt ashamed that the graft suspect was included in the commission.

“It will give a false image that the commission is full of those who have problems with the law,” he said.

Responding to the uproar, Democrat Sutan Bathoegana proposed that Angelina be placed at Commission VIII, which oversees social and religious affairs instead.

But anticorruption activists slammed that as well, saying the Democrats were ignorant of the public’s sense of justice, saying that Angelina was not fit to sit on any commission and should be removed from the House.

Angelina has been accused by Nazaruddin of asking for money in connection to the construction of the athletes’ village in Palembang for last year’s Southeast Asian Games.

Another key witness, Mindo Rosalina Manulang, who used to work in one of Nazaruddin’s companies, testified in court that Angelina had requested that money be given to members of the House Budget Committee.

Rosalina said Angelina had accepted a Rp 2 billion ($224,000) “fee” linked to the project.

Angelina is expected to be charged under at least three articles of the 1999 Law on Corruption Eradication.