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MOST CANDIDATES RELUCTANT TO FILL THREE VACANT KPK POSTS
Jakarta, Sept 26 (ANTARA) - Most of the persons a government-appointed team considered to be suitable candidates to fill three top vacancies in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) proved unwilling to be nominated, a team member said.
"They were not prepared to be nominated because they were afraid they could be criminalized or meet the same fate as the two KPK vice chairmen currently being accused by the police of abuse of authority," said Todung Mulya Lubis, a member of the team appointed by the president to recommend three names to be appointed interim KPK leaders (one chairman and two vice chairmen), here Saturday.
He said the team had approached more than 10 people to interest them in being nominated for the KPK posts "but most of them turned down our offer."
They all took their cue from the ongoing case of KPK vice chairmen Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto whom the police recently named suspects in a case of abuse of authority in the performance of their duties.
In their view, Hamzah and Rianto's case had shown that top KPK executives run the risk of being criminalized for doing their job, Lubis said.
The Hamzah and Rianto case was compounding the team's task but it had continued to work to find the best possible candidates and already had the names of a few persons who were prepared to be nominated.
But Lubis declined to disclose the names, saying "just wait until October 1 when we will present the names to the President."
He also refused to say for which institutions they were now working and their professions. "The important thing is they meet the criteria," he said.
Earlier in the day, Lubis and another committee member, Adnan Buyung Nasution, met with representatives of the police, public prosecutor's office, and the defense lawyers' community to hear the latter's views and inputs on the selection of the people for the posts of interim chief and two deputy chiefs of the country's anti-graft body.
With KPK chief Antasari Azhar in jail as a suspect in a murder case, Hamzah and Rianto declared suspects in another criminal offense, the KPK is now being run by its two remaining deputy chiefs whereas under the law, the commisssion's leadership must concist of five persons who take their decisions on a collective basis.***
"They were not prepared to be nominated because they were afraid they could be criminalized or meet the same fate as the two KPK vice chairmen currently being accused by the police of abuse of authority," said Todung Mulya Lubis, a member of the team appointed by the president to recommend three names to be appointed interim KPK leaders (one chairman and two vice chairmen), here Saturday.
He said the team had approached more than 10 people to interest them in being nominated for the KPK posts "but most of them turned down our offer."
They all took their cue from the ongoing case of KPK vice chairmen Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto whom the police recently named suspects in a case of abuse of authority in the performance of their duties.
In their view, Hamzah and Rianto's case had shown that top KPK executives run the risk of being criminalized for doing their job, Lubis said.
The Hamzah and Rianto case was compounding the team's task but it had continued to work to find the best possible candidates and already had the names of a few persons who were prepared to be nominated.
But Lubis declined to disclose the names, saying "just wait until October 1 when we will present the names to the President."
He also refused to say for which institutions they were now working and their professions. "The important thing is they meet the criteria," he said.
Earlier in the day, Lubis and another committee member, Adnan Buyung Nasution, met with representatives of the police, public prosecutor's office, and the defense lawyers' community to hear the latter's views and inputs on the selection of the people for the posts of interim chief and two deputy chiefs of the country's anti-graft body.
With KPK chief Antasari Azhar in jail as a suspect in a murder case, Hamzah and Rianto declared suspects in another criminal offense, the KPK is now being run by its two remaining deputy chiefs whereas under the law, the commisssion's leadership must concist of five persons who take their decisions on a collective basis.***
