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LEGISLATOR DEFENDS KPK`S EXISTENCE
Jakarta, Dec 2 (ANTARA) - The House of Representatives (DPR) might well dissolve the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) if the police and public prosecutor's offices were already functioning as they should in fighting corruption, a legislator said.
"The House could well dissolve the KPK if the conventional law-enforcing agencies like the police and the prosecutor's offices can really be trusted to fight corruption well and sincerely," House member Alvin Lie of the National Mandate Party (PAN) said here Tuusday.
Lie who has earned the epithet of "Cowboy of Senayan" because of his unconventional or daring views said the KPK was established precisely because the normal law-enforcing agencies had failed to solve corruption cases properly.
The KPK's formation was in fact a manifestation of the public's disappointment about the country's law enforcing agencies' inability to root out graft effectively, he said.
To make up for the law enforcing agencies' failure, the KPK had been vested with powers to investigate or scrutinize suspected corruption cases, interrogate, examine, prosecute, detain or put under serveillance corruption suspects, he said.
"We must remember the history of KPK. It was formed following the failure of prosecutor's offices and the police to eradicate corruption. When the police and prosecutor's offices are already capable of taking over the KPK's tasks in upholding the law indiscriminately and sincerely, the KPK can be dissolved," he said.
Therefore, Lie said, the police and public prosecutors should not look at the KPK as a rival but as a partner in upholding the law. The KPK was in principle formed to help the police and public prosecutors.
"The KPK is only an ad hoc or temporary body while the police and public prosecutor's offices are permanent agencies that cannot be dissolved as they the state's standard and legal instruments. When the police and public prosecutor's offices can already take over the KPK's tasks, then KPK will no longer be needed," said Lie who is also a member of the House's Commission VII.
Lie made the statements to comment on indications of rivalry between the police and public prosecutors on the one hand, and the KPK on the other.
He said it appeared there was a sentiment among public prosecutors as represented by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) that their credibility had really dropped to bottom level after the KPK arrested prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan for accepting a bribe in a corruption case he was investigating.
The police also seemed to have been offended when the KPK detained former National Police Chief Rusdihardjo and put him on trial for corruption. In the public's view, the police showed their discomfiture by withdrawing two police investigators from duty in the KPK. Most recently, the attorney general started a debate with the KPK chief about budgets for the handling of corruption cases.
"The House could well dissolve the KPK if the conventional law-enforcing agencies like the police and the prosecutor's offices can really be trusted to fight corruption well and sincerely," House member Alvin Lie of the National Mandate Party (PAN) said here Tuusday.
Lie who has earned the epithet of "Cowboy of Senayan" because of his unconventional or daring views said the KPK was established precisely because the normal law-enforcing agencies had failed to solve corruption cases properly.
The KPK's formation was in fact a manifestation of the public's disappointment about the country's law enforcing agencies' inability to root out graft effectively, he said.
To make up for the law enforcing agencies' failure, the KPK had been vested with powers to investigate or scrutinize suspected corruption cases, interrogate, examine, prosecute, detain or put under serveillance corruption suspects, he said.
"We must remember the history of KPK. It was formed following the failure of prosecutor's offices and the police to eradicate corruption. When the police and prosecutor's offices are already capable of taking over the KPK's tasks in upholding the law indiscriminately and sincerely, the KPK can be dissolved," he said.
Therefore, Lie said, the police and public prosecutors should not look at the KPK as a rival but as a partner in upholding the law. The KPK was in principle formed to help the police and public prosecutors.
"The KPK is only an ad hoc or temporary body while the police and public prosecutor's offices are permanent agencies that cannot be dissolved as they the state's standard and legal instruments. When the police and public prosecutor's offices can already take over the KPK's tasks, then KPK will no longer be needed," said Lie who is also a member of the House's Commission VII.
Lie made the statements to comment on indications of rivalry between the police and public prosecutors on the one hand, and the KPK on the other.
He said it appeared there was a sentiment among public prosecutors as represented by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) that their credibility had really dropped to bottom level after the KPK arrested prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan for accepting a bribe in a corruption case he was investigating.
The police also seemed to have been offended when the KPK detained former National Police Chief Rusdihardjo and put him on trial for corruption. In the public's view, the police showed their discomfiture by withdrawing two police investigators from duty in the KPK. Most recently, the attorney general started a debate with the KPK chief about budgets for the handling of corruption cases.
