REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) finally detained Governor of the Banten, Ratu Atut Chosiyan, on Friday.

"She is detained at Pondok Bambu for the first 20 days," stated KPK spokesman Johan Budi, adding, "the detention has been done over certain subjective reasons stated by the investigators."

KPK has named Ratu Atut as suspect, based on an order from the investigators, for allegedly violating Law Number 31 of 1999 which was later changed to Law Number 20 of 2001. The law rules that any person who gives or promises to give a judge something to influence his/her ruling over a case is sentenced to anything between three and 15 years of imprisonment and a fine that ranges between 150 million and 750 million IDR.

KPK chairman Abraham Samad stated that Atut, along with her brother Tubagus Chaeri Wardana alias Wawan, had allegedly paid 1 billion IDR as bribe to former Constitutional Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar, through lawyer Susi Tur Andayani, who haD also been named as a suspect in this case. KPK pointed out that Atut has also been supposedly involved in a corruption case linked to health equipment procurement worth 30 billion IDR. 

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