Riding on Calls for a KPK Inquiry
Suspected bribery involving DPR legislators in the electronic ID (e-KTP) project has triggered a move to apply the Right of Inquiry on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), to force the anti-graft agency to open its criminal investigation on the project to the public. Other politicians not implicated by the e-KTP scandal are calling for the Right of Inquiry on account of other corruption cases. Their ultimate objective is to revise the KPK Law so as to revoke its authority to conduct electronic surveillance.
May 9, 2017
The admission of Miryam S. Haryani was a wake-up call for the House of Representatives (DPR). In addition to testifying that from 2011 to 2012 legislators had accepted trillions of rupiah in bribes from the home affairs ministry's electronic ID card (e-KTP) project, Miryam also admitted she had been pressured by fellow lawmakers not to be totally honest about revealing the manipulations behind the Rp5.9 trillion project.
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