Govt to issue new antigraft decree

Govt to issue new antigraft decree

JAKARTA: Justice and Human Rights Minister Hamid Awaluddin
said on Tuesday that his ministry has finished drafting a new
antigraft decree, which requires suspected corruptors to be put
in jail from the beginning of the investigation.

"We want them to be imprisoned from the start of the
investigation," he told reporters, referring to many cases where
corruptors had managed to flee justice, despite their conviction
by courts.

Hamid said his ministry will conduct a discussion with the
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the National Police, the
Attorney General's Office and the Supreme Court regarding the
draft of the government regulation in lieu of law.

The new government plans to enforce the law in a bid to
accelerate its anti-corruption campaign within its first 100 days
in power. -- JP