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