Desperate Times at the KPK

Tensions were high on Monday two weeks ago during a meeting between Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders and KPK investigators. When KPK deputy head Adnan Pandu Praja suggested a moratorium on the investigation of corruption, they boiled over. "Investigators immediately protested Adnan's suggestion," a KPK employee told Tempo.

Adnan said a moratorium was needed to put a halt to the incessant attacks of corruption suspects towards the KPK. He pointed to the pre-trial hearings of seven corruption suspects lodged at the South Jakarta District Court in recent months. Of those seven, three won their hearings, and their suspect-statuses were invalidated.