NGOs, students urge SBY to save KPK

Panca Nugraha, The Jakarta Post, Mataram | National | Tue, November 03 2009, 6:07 PM 

The rally’s coordinator, Ervyn Kaffah, said the KPK was being attacked in a move to paralyze it.

“The arrest of Bibit and Chandra is only a small part of a conspiracy with a wider objective to paralyze the KPK,” he said. “We urge the President to take a firm stance and save the KPK.”

“The KPK was set up because of the high level of corruption in Indonesia,” he said. “The KPK was implemented because prosecutors and the police did not effectively fight corruption.”

 
About 30 NGO activists, university and high school students in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, staged a rally Tuesday to express their support for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Protesting the arrest of the two KPK deputies, Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra Hamzah, they urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to save the KPK.


During the demonstration, they distributed leaflets calling on people to support the KPK and tied black scarves on their left arms.

The rally’s coordinator, Ervyn Kaffah, said the KPK was being attacked in a move to paralyze it.

“The arrest of Bibit and Chandra is only a small part of a conspiracy with a wider objective to paralyze the KPK,” he said. “We urge the President to take a firm stance and save the KPK.”

“The KPK was set up because of the high level of corruption in Indonesia,” he said. “The KPK was implemented because prosecutors and the police did not effectively fight corruption.”

In addition, the KPK was established following the demand from people who wanted the total eradication of corruption, he said.

Efforts corrupt officials may have initiated against the KPK include filing a request at the Constitutional Court to review the law on the KPK, attacking the KPK’s tapping authority, seizing the KPK’s authority to prosecute corrupt officials through the anticorruption bill and withdrawing KPK investigators from the police and state audit agency, according to Kaffah.

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