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Tue, 11/24/2009 - 16:09
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TWO WITNESS PROTECTION AGENCY OFFICIALS TO BE SUSPENDED
Jakarta, Nov 24 (ANTARA) - The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) is to suspend its vice chief, I Ktut Sudiharsa, and commissioner for protection affairs, Myra Diarsi, soon after an Ethics Team has been formed to handle their cases.
Sudiharsa and Diarsi came into the spotlight after a tape recording of wiretapped conversations between the two and businessman Anggodo Widjojo, together with a police official and public prosecutor, were replayed at a Constitutional Court (MK) session. The conversations created the impression among the public that there was a plot against the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
"We have decided to suspend them from their posts as soon as the decree on the formation of an Ethics Team has been issued," LPSK Chief Abdul Haris Semendawai said here on Tuesday.
He said both Sudiharsa and Diarsi would be suspended until the agency had made a decision on their fate at a board of directors' meeting.
The ethics team would consist of five people, namely two from LPSK and three from institutions outside the agency.
The team would have the power to ask, collect, check database and people considered to have valuable information in relation to the two suspended agency officials. The team could also make an analysis and formulate certain conclusions on its findings and present them in the form of recommendations to LPSK.
Semandawai said, through the ethics team and its investigation, the LPSK wanted to restore LPSK's credibility among the people.
He said the decision to establish ane Ethics Team was taken in response to the recommendation of the Fact-Finding Team (TPF) set up by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reform the law enforcement agencies, namely the National Police, Attorney General's Office (AGO), KPK and LPSK.
The TPF had also advised the president to conduct a Governance Audit by establishing an independent institution tasked to identify problems and weaknesses inside law enforcement bodies in the country.
Another recommendation from the TPF stated that law enforcement in Indonesia had been ruined by the case-brokering problem, and therefore, the president needed to give priority to the eradication of the practice through "shock therapy." ***
Sudiharsa and Diarsi came into the spotlight after a tape recording of wiretapped conversations between the two and businessman Anggodo Widjojo, together with a police official and public prosecutor, were replayed at a Constitutional Court (MK) session. The conversations created the impression among the public that there was a plot against the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
"We have decided to suspend them from their posts as soon as the decree on the formation of an Ethics Team has been issued," LPSK Chief Abdul Haris Semendawai said here on Tuesday.
He said both Sudiharsa and Diarsi would be suspended until the agency had made a decision on their fate at a board of directors' meeting.
The ethics team would consist of five people, namely two from LPSK and three from institutions outside the agency.
The team would have the power to ask, collect, check database and people considered to have valuable information in relation to the two suspended agency officials. The team could also make an analysis and formulate certain conclusions on its findings and present them in the form of recommendations to LPSK.
Semandawai said, through the ethics team and its investigation, the LPSK wanted to restore LPSK's credibility among the people.
He said the decision to establish ane Ethics Team was taken in response to the recommendation of the Fact-Finding Team (TPF) set up by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reform the law enforcement agencies, namely the National Police, Attorney General's Office (AGO), KPK and LPSK.
The TPF had also advised the president to conduct a Governance Audit by establishing an independent institution tasked to identify problems and weaknesses inside law enforcement bodies in the country.
Another recommendation from the TPF stated that law enforcement in Indonesia had been ruined by the case-brokering problem, and therefore, the president needed to give priority to the eradication of the practice through "shock therapy." ***
