From House Lizards to Turtles

Due to setbacks in the handling of some major corruption cases, the Corruption Eradication Commission is accused of being impotent. Commission leaders say that incessant attacks on their institution have left them unbalanced. There is a crisis of trust.

July 28, 2010

THE discussion which began with laughter suddenly became disheartening. “Now my status is unclear, am I a suspect or not,” said Chandra M. Hamzah, Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), in early July.

Attending a discussion with journalists and the Narablog community in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, he was accompanied by Bibit Samad Rianto, a fellow KPK Deputy Chairman. The two were named suspects by police in Sept

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