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News Focus: JIMLY`S BID TO CONTEST IN KPK CHAIRMANSHIP POST HIGHLY APPRECIATED
By Eliswan Azly
Jakarta, June 24 (ANTARA) - Constitutional law expert Jimly Asshiddiqie's bid to contest in the Corruption Eradication Commission chairmanship post is highly praised by some legal expert and political analyst, as he is seen as a clean figure capable of leading the anti graft body in the future.
Dr Sofyan Siregar, a political analyst of the Islamic University of North Sumatra in his e-mailed message here on Thursday, said Jimly's bid to run for the contest was greatly welcomed as his performance in leading the constitutional court in the past was proven excellent.
"He is not only a law expert, but also a clean figure who is never involved in bribery and corruption," he said, thus urging relevant parties in the country to see Jimly's bid as a positive step toward a better management of the KPK in the future.
It was reported that Jimly Asshiddiqie had officially left his state job in the presidential advisory council to concentrate more on his quest for the chief post at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
With the signing of a presidential decree (Kepres) on his resignation from the presidential advisory council (Watimpres), his way to contest in KPK chairmanship post will run unhampered as he had registered his name as an applicant in the contest.
"The president has signed the decree on Jimly Asshiddiqie's resignation from Watimpress membership because the latter is making a bid to be selected for the post of KPK leader," presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha on Wednesday.
According to Julian, the decree was effective on the date it was signed by the president and therefore, "Jimly is now no longer a member of Watimpres."
Julian said members of Presidential Advisory Board were appointed and suspended by the president through a presidential decree but he made no mention if Jimly's dismissal was temporary or permanent.
Jimly was a former chairman of the Constitutional Court before being sworn in as member of Watimpres in January this year to deal with legal and state structure matters.
The president hoped that the new Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leader could be well accepted by the public. ?Whoever is elected later as the new KPK leader should be a right man in the right place to meet public expectations," Julian said.
The head of state was leaving the selection of KPK new leader entirely to the selection team without any intervention whatsoever from any party. Yudhoyono had never mentioned any of the persons who had registered as applicant for the KPK post, but only hoped that the selection process would be based on existing procedures without intervention from any party.
According to Sofyan, either Jimly's bid to head the antigraft commission was his own personal initiative or not is not a problem. The most important he was a sincere and clean person who could be trusted to run the job well.
The president will certainly leave the decisions and vet mechanism up to the selection committee, so it's not necessary to debate on this issue. Because every citizen has the right to get engaged in the contest, Sofyan said adding that let alone the contest has yet to be started.
Such similar opinion was conveyed by Said Nizar LLM, an legal expert who is also an expert at the state Hasanuddin University of Makassar who revealed that Jimly was an expert and academician who had proven his performance to the people of Indonesia in leading the Constitutional Court in the past.
"It is time for the people to give him an opportunity to lead the KPK, as Jimly is seen as a figure who does not want to take side with the wrongdoers (the guilty) or to be intervened by a certain party in implementing his job," he said.
"I do trust him, because he is a pious one and has a strong commitment in implementing religious tenets. He will never succumb to any temptation like bride and others, because he is afraid of the God and not to the human being," he said.
In the meantime, former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who established the KPK during her time in office, said the next chairman should be unshakable in the face of outside intervention or threats, and immune to bribery. "If those criteria can be met, then I believe the ideal corruption eradication program can be implemented.
According to Nizar, the criteria as mentioned by Megawati could be seen in Jimly as a figure who is predicted to be able to lead the KPK.
Nizar expressed his deep dispointment with the current state of the commission, which according to him was easily swayed by outside interests.
He had conceived the KPK as an ?extraordinary body? in response to the incompetence of the police and the Attorney General?s Office in tackling graft, she said.
"But the KPK now is clearly not working that well. I believe this is the result of a lack of commitment from officials in both the KPK and the government to eradicate corruption," he said.
That's why the nomination of Jimly is highly welcomed in hope that he will be able to build better image of the KPK in the eye of the Indonesian people as a whole.
Jimly was nominated by the Indonesian University Rectors? Council, which also nominated Andalas University legal expert Saldi Isra, University of Indonesia Law School dean Hikmahanto Juwana, Judicial Commission chairman Busyro Muqoddas and Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mahfud MD.
Of the five, only Jimly and Busyro, a key critic of the country?s judiciary, followed up by submitting their applications.
Jimly has been widely touted as being the best possible candidate for the post. He was appointed the first head of the Constitutional Court in 2003, before stepping down in 2008 amid plaudits for turning the court into a respected institution.
A total of 268 people have registered as applicants for the post of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief, according to latest data from the selection committee.[
They come from various professions but most of them are lawyers numbering 78 or 29.1 percent of the total, followed by private professions 72 or 8.2 percent, civil servants or retired civil servants 61 or 22.7 percent, academicians 23 or 8.5 percent, police/military officers or retired police/military officers 22 or 8.2 percent.
The number of retired public prosecutors registering for selection is nine or 3.3 percent while judges or retired judges three or 1.1 percent.
Several national figures have also registered themselves for the selection namely Jimly Asshiddiqie, who is a member of the presidential advisory board and Busyro Muqodar, who is chairman of the Judicial Commission.
Others include former president director of Perum Percetakan Uang Republic Indonesia (state-owned money printing company) and also former KPK official, Junino Jahja, and Farouk Muhammad, a member of the Regional Representative Council.
Noted lawyers who have registered for the selection are Bambang Widjohanto, Henry Yosodiningrat, Otto Cornelis Kaligis, Yusuf Asyid, Farhat Abbas, Alam P Simamora, Pangihutan Nasution and Cacang S Murtado.
Retired army officers that have registered are retired major general Kivlan Zein and former second director of economic special affairs of the National Police Criminal Intelligence Unit, retired Brigadier General Weni Warouw.
The committee would choose two among them to be reported to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who would later refer them to the House of Representatives for a fit and proper test.
Jakarta, June 24 (ANTARA) - Constitutional law expert Jimly Asshiddiqie's bid to contest in the Corruption Eradication Commission chairmanship post is highly praised by some legal expert and political analyst, as he is seen as a clean figure capable of leading the anti graft body in the future.
Dr Sofyan Siregar, a political analyst of the Islamic University of North Sumatra in his e-mailed message here on Thursday, said Jimly's bid to run for the contest was greatly welcomed as his performance in leading the constitutional court in the past was proven excellent.
"He is not only a law expert, but also a clean figure who is never involved in bribery and corruption," he said, thus urging relevant parties in the country to see Jimly's bid as a positive step toward a better management of the KPK in the future.
It was reported that Jimly Asshiddiqie had officially left his state job in the presidential advisory council to concentrate more on his quest for the chief post at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
With the signing of a presidential decree (Kepres) on his resignation from the presidential advisory council (Watimpres), his way to contest in KPK chairmanship post will run unhampered as he had registered his name as an applicant in the contest.
"The president has signed the decree on Jimly Asshiddiqie's resignation from Watimpress membership because the latter is making a bid to be selected for the post of KPK leader," presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha on Wednesday.
According to Julian, the decree was effective on the date it was signed by the president and therefore, "Jimly is now no longer a member of Watimpres."
Julian said members of Presidential Advisory Board were appointed and suspended by the president through a presidential decree but he made no mention if Jimly's dismissal was temporary or permanent.
Jimly was a former chairman of the Constitutional Court before being sworn in as member of Watimpres in January this year to deal with legal and state structure matters.
The president hoped that the new Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leader could be well accepted by the public. ?Whoever is elected later as the new KPK leader should be a right man in the right place to meet public expectations," Julian said.
The head of state was leaving the selection of KPK new leader entirely to the selection team without any intervention whatsoever from any party. Yudhoyono had never mentioned any of the persons who had registered as applicant for the KPK post, but only hoped that the selection process would be based on existing procedures without intervention from any party.
According to Sofyan, either Jimly's bid to head the antigraft commission was his own personal initiative or not is not a problem. The most important he was a sincere and clean person who could be trusted to run the job well.
The president will certainly leave the decisions and vet mechanism up to the selection committee, so it's not necessary to debate on this issue. Because every citizen has the right to get engaged in the contest, Sofyan said adding that let alone the contest has yet to be started.
Such similar opinion was conveyed by Said Nizar LLM, an legal expert who is also an expert at the state Hasanuddin University of Makassar who revealed that Jimly was an expert and academician who had proven his performance to the people of Indonesia in leading the Constitutional Court in the past.
"It is time for the people to give him an opportunity to lead the KPK, as Jimly is seen as a figure who does not want to take side with the wrongdoers (the guilty) or to be intervened by a certain party in implementing his job," he said.
"I do trust him, because he is a pious one and has a strong commitment in implementing religious tenets. He will never succumb to any temptation like bride and others, because he is afraid of the God and not to the human being," he said.
In the meantime, former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who established the KPK during her time in office, said the next chairman should be unshakable in the face of outside intervention or threats, and immune to bribery. "If those criteria can be met, then I believe the ideal corruption eradication program can be implemented.
According to Nizar, the criteria as mentioned by Megawati could be seen in Jimly as a figure who is predicted to be able to lead the KPK.
Nizar expressed his deep dispointment with the current state of the commission, which according to him was easily swayed by outside interests.
He had conceived the KPK as an ?extraordinary body? in response to the incompetence of the police and the Attorney General?s Office in tackling graft, she said.
"But the KPK now is clearly not working that well. I believe this is the result of a lack of commitment from officials in both the KPK and the government to eradicate corruption," he said.
That's why the nomination of Jimly is highly welcomed in hope that he will be able to build better image of the KPK in the eye of the Indonesian people as a whole.
Jimly was nominated by the Indonesian University Rectors? Council, which also nominated Andalas University legal expert Saldi Isra, University of Indonesia Law School dean Hikmahanto Juwana, Judicial Commission chairman Busyro Muqoddas and Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mahfud MD.
Of the five, only Jimly and Busyro, a key critic of the country?s judiciary, followed up by submitting their applications.
Jimly has been widely touted as being the best possible candidate for the post. He was appointed the first head of the Constitutional Court in 2003, before stepping down in 2008 amid plaudits for turning the court into a respected institution.
A total of 268 people have registered as applicants for the post of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief, according to latest data from the selection committee.[
They come from various professions but most of them are lawyers numbering 78 or 29.1 percent of the total, followed by private professions 72 or 8.2 percent, civil servants or retired civil servants 61 or 22.7 percent, academicians 23 or 8.5 percent, police/military officers or retired police/military officers 22 or 8.2 percent.
The number of retired public prosecutors registering for selection is nine or 3.3 percent while judges or retired judges three or 1.1 percent.
Several national figures have also registered themselves for the selection namely Jimly Asshiddiqie, who is a member of the presidential advisory board and Busyro Muqodar, who is chairman of the Judicial Commission.
Others include former president director of Perum Percetakan Uang Republic Indonesia (state-owned money printing company) and also former KPK official, Junino Jahja, and Farouk Muhammad, a member of the Regional Representative Council.
Noted lawyers who have registered for the selection are Bambang Widjohanto, Henry Yosodiningrat, Otto Cornelis Kaligis, Yusuf Asyid, Farhat Abbas, Alam P Simamora, Pangihutan Nasution and Cacang S Murtado.
Retired army officers that have registered are retired major general Kivlan Zein and former second director of economic special affairs of the National Police Criminal Intelligence Unit, retired Brigadier General Weni Warouw.
The committee would choose two among them to be reported to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who would later refer them to the House of Representatives for a fit and proper test.
