ICW hopes three interim KPK leaders no `troyan horse`

The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said it was hoping the three government-appointed acting Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders will not turn out to be a "troyan horse."

"We hope that what appears to be a gift to KPK will not prove to be a means to destroy the antigraft body from within." ICW researcher Febri Diansyah said here Monday.

Diansyah was commenting on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono`s appproval of three candidates to fill vacant executive positions in KPK forwarded by the governement-appointed Team of Five.

The three are Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, Mas Ahmad Santosa and Waluyo. They would tempororily fill the positions in KPK left vacant by its chief and two deputy chiefs.

Diansyah also said it was hoped the interim KPK leaders would not become "circus lions" who were unable to take resolute actions against corrupters.

"And the only way for them to prove to the public they are not such uneffective KPK leaders is to work hard since the beginning," he said.

Their lithmus test would be the Bank Century case at three levels - actors in policy-making, supervision by Bank Indonesia (BI), and field operators, he said.

Anther test would be the case of "SD" (a senior police officer alleged to have misused his authority to force Bank Century to return the funds of a big-time depositor).

Also, Diansyaj said, the appointmnent of the three acting KPKl leaders should not make the president forget the issue of criminilization of the KPK leadershp.

"Therefore, conducting a thorough examination of the police`s decision to declare two KPK deputy chiefs suspects for abuse of authority is a task to be carried out after this," he said.

Another ICW researcher, , Emerson F Yuntho, said the acting KPK leaders should have the courage to reject attempts to criminilize the KPK leadership. "Otherwise, they too may become victims of criminilaztion." he addded.

Yuntho also said the interim KPK leaders should prove heir mettle by uncovering long-dorman cases such as the Bank Century scandal and the illegal BI funds flowd to the House of Representatives as disclosed by Agus Tjondro," he said.

He said if the interim KPK leaders failed to finish the pending cases "the public will doubt their independence." (*)



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