Bribing and Taming the Police

In West Java, law enforcement authorities, like elsewhere, are tasked with arresting criminals, not cover up their crimes. But the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) testimony of former Subang Regent Ojang Suhandi, who confessed to having bribed police officers to escape the law, proves otherwise. Instead of chasing criminals, the police conspired with them to cover up crimes.

For his part, Ojang, a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), was caught bribing a prosecutor in an attempt to have his name erased from the social security fund (BPJS) graft case file. A court had found two former officials of the Subang health services department guilty of embezzling Rp4.7 billion from the social security claim refund of Rp41 billion, and subsequently sentenced them to four years in prison.