The AGO has returned the KPK case - a golden chance for SBY and the nation to shine
Perspektif Online
10 November 2009
by: Wimar Witoelar

The 'Team of eight,' a fact-finding team appointed to review the National Police harrassment of the Corruption Eradication Commission has confirmed on Monday that the police did not have evidence to suspect KPK's Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M Hamzah of receiving bribe money.
Security Chief Djoko Suyanto said that the president had asked the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office to respond to the report.
The Attorney General's Office has returned the case to the police. It is time for the President to make the decision. He should make his conclusion and make major process start to roll. EIther he supports the Police case and have them prosecute the KPK pair, or he should call off police harassment and take measure to cleanse the National Police and the Attorney General' Office, and rehabilitate Bibit and Chandra.
It is that simple. The case is complicated and siphoned the nation's attention away from important work. SBY's 100m day plan has met lukewarm attention because it is detached from realities of the day. But the President is a powerful man. Not because of power and money like Suharto used to have, but because of the basis of legitimacy which the electoral majority has given him. SBY is gaining international prestige, credibility that he needs to bring the Climate Change into high gear and make Indonesia's mark on the world peace processes as well as economic reform.
The KPK-Police case has been termed the "Lizard and Crocodile" case. We may call it the Crocodilegate scandal. But there are basic differences between this scandal and Washington's Watergate. This scandal is the story of greed among law enforcers, not a cynical cover-up that Nixon waged.
The President has only to look up from the details of the case, take a deep breath, and look into the world horizon. He will see clearly that the nation's destiny is on the side of the civil society, and he may use the case to accelerate reform of the National Police and the Attorney General's Office.




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