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Uncertain Future for Indonesia’s Mafia Eradication Task Force
Arientha Primanita | December 30, 2011

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DrDez
7:23pm Dec 30, 2011

RB protection of own interests .. full stop

Valkyrie
5:17pm Dec 30, 2011

dd...

When the "boss" sets a bad example, guess what happens down the line.

The whole cart full of apples eventually turns bad.

I am convinced that the President has an Achilles Heel which he needs to 'protect' well. This, happened during his time with Mega. There has to be something really bad that took place which created this animosity between Mega/SBY.

SBY gave Taufik the honor of being head of the MPR, but Mega was not impressed. She still harbors a great dislike for SBY.

Only Mega knows.

RuleBritannia
5:10pm Dec 30, 2011

Can anyone think of just one valid reason why they should not be allowed to continue - clearly the pressure is coming from the fringe parties that SBY is forced to humour in order to maintain the coalition - pressure from those that don't want their gravy trains derailed and probably the more hard line religious groups hence the ever increasing dominance of religious laws as highlighted elsewhere online today.

DrDez
3:58pm Dec 30, 2011

The bastards just sit in the wings waiting for another group attempting to curb their greed is dismantled by SBY (the time to stop talking is now says SBY... yes we can see that)

KPK gone inside 12 months??? Yes Mr President that will do nicely....

crivens!!!

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The day before the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force is set to expire, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has yet to decide whether he will extend its term, the task force chairman said on Thursday.

“At this point, we still don’t know whether the task force will be extended. It’s in the hands of the president,” chairman Kuntoro Mangkusubroto said .

The presidentially appointed task force was created to curb practices of the judicial mafia, or the legal case brokers who have worked to effectively choke the country’s legal system. The six-person team had a two-year mandate, which expires today.

Kuntoro said that during its tenure, the task force had established a good track record.

“The task force has had the greatest impact by assisting the settlement of several cases and improving systems in law enforcement institutions,” he said.

He said the task force received almost 5,000 public complaints during its two-year tenure, but only 73 of them were actually followed up by the concerned government institutions.

Still, he said, the task force was able to study 89 percent of all complaints, and it forwarded 163 complaints to the concerned institutions for action.

“From all of the reports we received, we could only process 163 that came complete with supporting data and strong evidence,” said Denny Indrayana, the deputy minister for justice and human rights, who is also a member of the task force.

He said that other government institutions, such as the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), had experienced similar problems.

The KPK, he said, has received up to 30,000 reports and complaints, but it has only been able to follow up on a few of them due to a lack of evidence.

Denny said the task force’s most important goal was not to unravel cases but to improve the law enforcement system.

“Like in the Gayus Tambunan case, we helped improve the tax tribunal system and get rid of the judicial mafia in law enforcement institutions,” he said, referring to the case of a rogue tax officer found to have amassed more than $11 million in bribes.

Denny said the task force helped improve the penitentiary system when it discovered that Artalyta Suryani, a businesswoman convicted for bribing a prosecutor, had been enjoying luxurious perks at a women’s jail where she was serving time.

He added that the task force had pushed for a policy to protect and afford leniency to justice collaborators.

Another task force member, Mas Ahmad Santosa, said the team had helped eradicate the judicial mafia from the forestry sector.

He said it pushed to revoke a decision to drop 13 cases of alleged illegal logging. Investigation of the cases has since resumed.