REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Chairman of Golkar Party Youth Movement Group (GMPG) Ahmad Doli Kurnia appreciated the persistence and consistency of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in handlng graft cases. He assessed KPK has faced winding roads and tremendous challenge, especially in solving e-ID card corruption case.
Pressure and barriers from many parties addressed to KPK. Even it came from one of the suspects, namely chairman of House of Representatives (DPR) Setya Novanto.
"The pressure and barriers not only from SN directly, but also from state institutions, such as DPR, courts, police, and high officials who protect him," said Ahmad on Sunday (November 12).
He said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) must support KPK to solve e-ID card graft case. Ahmad assessed, president need to show his full support, such as by giving the institution flexibility to work in accordance with its authority and to guarantee there was no force from individual or others on behalf the government.
"We really hope the government, especially President Jokowi can affirm his support to KPK to complete e-ID card graft case," he added.
Further more, Ahmad said KPK should immediately arrest Novanto. It was necessary to avoid more maneuvers to block the investigation.
KPK officially announced Novanto as a suspect in e-ID card graft case for the second time on last November 10. He once has been named as a suspect in July but later has succeeded to invalid his status with a pretrial motion on September 29.
Deputy Chairman of KPK, Saut Situmorang said the decision came after the leaders of institution and investigators carefully learned the pretrial motion that had been decided by Judge Ceppy Iskandar.
KPK has conducted a new investigation for the development of e-ID graft case through the inquirey process by requesting a number of parties and collected relevant evidences.
After pretrial motion, Novanto was summoned by KPK to testify as a witness for three time. However, he missed all summons. Respectively due to his health condition, due to House of Representatives duties and visiting his electoral region in East Nusa Tenggara. He said, he used Parliamentary imunity to avoid being questioned or testify.
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