Go to Jail... Directly to Jail

The KPK detains 24 members of the House of Representatives believed to have accepted bribes to vote for Miranda Gultom as Bank Indonesia senior deputy governor in 2004. The political parties have been unable to prevent the anticorruption watchdog from locking up their members.

February 9, 2011

THE news was received by investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday evening two weeks ago. Patra M. Zen informed them that his client, Panda Nababan, was to fly to Batam the following day to attend a national leadership meeting of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. On Thursday morning Panda had sent a letter stating that he would be unable to answer a KPK summons.

The KPK had plans for the 66-year-old Pa

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