SBY warn his Police in Chief to explain in detail about Chandra and Bibit cases

SBY warn his Police in Chief to explain in detail about Chandra and Bibit cases

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang YudhoyonoSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta on Friday, October 30, 2009 warn his Police in Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri to explain in detail to the public about the arrested two suspended deputy chairman of the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK) Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto yesterday.

The National Police arrested Thursday two suspended antigraft officials, just a day after the Attorney General’s Office asked for the charges to be dropped.

The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairmen Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah have been charged with abuse of power for imposing and then lifting travel bans on graft suspects Anggoro Widjojo and Djoko Sugiarto Tjandra.

A score of Indonesian leading figure show their protest about the protested. ‘’The decision of the Indonesian Police is not properly and I want the Police to release them,’’ said Indonesian prominent lawyer and human right activist Todung Mulya Lubis.

Some of the other Indonesian leading figure, like former KPK leaders Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas and Sociologist Imam Prasodjo and some of other leading figure told the police that what the Bibit and Chandra did was like the first KPK leaders done. ‘’If the police want to arrest Bibit and Chandra, they could arrest me, as the KPK first leaders first, before they do the same to Mr Bibit and Chandra.

‘’When we select the first leaders and to establish the KPK, we know that the Indonesian Police and Attorney General Ministry can not do their duties to eradicate the corruption in Indonesia fairly and professionally, so the arrested Mr Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M Hamzah is not properly and like to make the KPK institution become a weakness,’’ said Komarudin Hidayat, Indonesian leading Moslem leader.

The Indonesian police accused Bibit and Chandra of taking bribes from Anggoro to halt a graft investigation into his company, PT Masaro Radiokom.

Meanwhile around 217 Indonesian General Retired who’s met in Puncak, resort areas in West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, October 29, 2009 want the reformation of the Indonesian Police.

Meanwhile the Indonesian Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled a delay in the implementation of an article in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) law on the dismissal of KPK leaders if they are defendants in a criminal case until it can reach a final ruling on the matter.

The decision thus partly approved a lawsuit filed by two deputies of The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman, Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra Hamzah, who were suspended from their position by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after the police declared them as suspects in a graft case. The court, however, rejected other requests of stopping police investigation into the two KPK leaders, saying it could only handle lawsuits against the law, not criminal cases.