President Asks KPK, Police, Attorney General To Improve Coordination

PRESIDENT ASKS KPK, POLICE, ATTORNEY GENERAL TO IMPROVE COORDINATION Jakarta, Feb 25 (Antara) - President Joko Widodo has asked the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), National Police (Polri), and Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) to improve their coordination in combating corruption. "I ask the KPK, National Police, and Attorney General's Office to support each other and build public confidence," Joko Widodo said here on Wednesday. The President ordered the three institutions of state law to prioritize corruption eradication and concern themselves with the prosecution of corruption cases. "Illegal logging, illegal fishing, and illegal mining must be matters of concern," the President affirmed. Meanwhile, Attorney General HM Prasetyo stated that corruption is rampant in Indonesia; so the AGO, KPK, and Police should together combat corruption. "We will establish technical cooperation among institutions later," Prasetyo added. Last Wednesday, President Joko Widodo had resolved a conflict between the KPK and Police by nominating Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti as the police chief candidate and selecting three acting KPK commissioners. "For the sake of the Police's stability, we propose Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti as the police chief candidate to the House of Representatives (DPR)," he had said at the Merdeka Palace here. President Joko Widodo asked Commissioner General Budi Gunawan, who was earlier approved by the DPR to fill the police chief's post, to continue contributing his best to the police, make it more professional, and win the people's trust. "He can contribute from any position that will be entrusted to him," he had stated, adding that he will also issue a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) for naming three acting commissioners of the anti-graft body. The figures we have chosen to replace Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto and to fill a commissioner's post are Taufiequrrahman Ruki (former KPK chairman), Indriyanto Senoaji (the University of Indonesia's law expert), and Johan Budi (the KPK's prevention unit head). President Joko Widodo later revealed he had issued a Presidential Decree followed by the issuance of Perppu to resolve the KPK's leadership problem after Abraham Samad was named suspect in an alleged document falsification case and Bambang Widjojanto was named in the Kotawaringin Barat election dispute case. The KPK-Police conflict surfaced after the anti-graft body named Budi Gunawan, the sole candidate for police chief, in a corruption case on January 13, 2015. KPK investigators accused Budi Gunawan of receiving bribes through suspicious transactions when he headed the Police Headquarters' Career Planning Bureau during 2003-2006 and held other posts in police.