REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The House Oversight Team on scandal hit Bank Century said it has not received an official answer from Vice President Boediono for the summon to a meeting on Dec 18.
Team leader Pramono Anung said the Oversight Team did hear what the vice president's spokesman Yopie Hidayat said that Boediono might not honor the summon.
"What is certain is we have not received an official answer from Boediono," Pramono Anung said here on Wednesday.
He said the team has sent the letter to the vice president asking him to be present at a meeting of the Oversight Team on Bank Century on Dec. 18.
"I signed the letter on Monday and it was already sent to the vice president, but until now we have not heard the reason from him for not coming," he said.
The Oversight Team is still awaiting a response from Boediono before deciding steps to be taken, he added.
He said if Boediono did fail to attend the meeting on Dec 18 the team leader would leave that matter to the Oversight Team to decide what steps to be take about it.
The Oversight Team is made up of various factions in the House including from the ruling party.
In the event that he failed to attend (the meeting) , certainly it would be up to the factions that make up the House Oversight Team on Bank Century, he said.
The deputy chairman of the House of Representative said he was aware that the Oversight Team has no authority in law enforcement in connection with the Bank Century legal case.
"What the Team is doing is only to ask for clarification for a number of statements given by Boediono when he was summoned by the Inquiry Team on Bank Century as published in a news release," he said.
One of the statements that need clarification was on bank Century bail out, he said.
"In addition, there was a statement by Boediono that LPS (Deposit Insurance Institution) was the one responsible for the ballooning of the Bank Century bail out fund. This is different from what he had said earlier at a meeting with the Inquiry Team," he said.
The Oversights Team, therefore, wants Boediono to clarify the difference in the statements on the same subject, he said.
Boediono was former Governor of Bank Indonesia which provided the fund to bail out the ailing bank.
At that time the bank was left drained by its owners who fled after robbing it including cash belonging to its depositors.
The decision to bail out the bank triggered a controversy leading to legal investigations.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) already named two former deputy governors of the central bank suspects and one of the suspect Budi Mulia is already in KPK detention house.
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