AGO to counter court verdict

JAKARTA: Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said on Thursday he would submit a legal argument to counter the North Jakarta district court's decision to drop a corruption case against Golkar politician Nurdin Halid on the grounds of a "flawed indictment".

The legal argument would be filed with the court after Nurdin finished his appeal process, he added.

"I am still studying the case file and all the legal arguments from the court. It's weird why Nurdin's lawyers would want to appeal even though the court has dropped the charges," Abdul Rahman said.

He said that unlike police, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) would not launch an internal probe into prosecutors over the flawed indictment.

"The prosecutors did make any mistake. It was the police who conducted the investigation, not us. We just received documents from them," Abdul Rahman said. --JP