Supervisory Team Threatens To Use Force On KPK

Jakarta, May 29 (Antara) - The House of Representatives` Supervisory Team for the Bank Century case said it may use force to bring in the leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to a meeting. The team is considering the use of force after KPK failed to appear after twice summoned by the team for a meeting to discuss progress made in the investigations of the high profile scandal. Investigations of the case has been dragging on for years implicating a number of the country`s leaders including Vice President Boediono. A number of leaders of the central bank under then Governor Boediono have been named suspects in breaching banking regulation in the process of bailing ailing Bank Century. "This week the team already twice invited the KPK leaders for a meeting, but they failed to appear," the team leader Muhammad Shohibul Iman said here on Wednesday. The meeting after the second summon was scheduled to take place on Wednesday but as the KPK leaders did not come, the team held their own internal meeting led by Shohibul Iman. At the same time KPK leaders received a visit from representatives of the Indonesian Student Executive Body (BEM) to show their appreciation for KPK`s determination to unveiled the Bank Century scandal. Shohibul Iman said the law allows the House of Representatives to use force if KPK leaders still fail to honor the third summon. He said the team will send its third invitation to KPK to attend a meeting on June 5 next week . "If the KPK leaders still fail to come the team will meet to formulate the mechanism of using force," he said, refusing to go into details.