Govt to select

Govt to select
commissions members

JAKARTA: The government is expected to start selecting members
of the Judicial Commission and the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (KKR) next month, an official said on Wednesday.

Abdul Gani Abdullah, the director general of legislation with
the justice and human rights ministry, said the two commissions
must be established by February and March next year.

The government will propose 14 candidates for selection by the
House of Representatives to sit on the seven-member Judicial
Commission, and would name 42 candidates for the KKR, which has
21 seats, he said.

Abdul Gani promised the selection process would be transparent
and accountable.

The government' selection team will include representatives
from all related government agencies and non-governmental
organizations, as well as academics. -- JP

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Immigration office prepares
online data base

JAKARTA: The immigration directorate at the Ministry of
Justice and Human Rights plans to establish an online information
system connecting its 380 offices and consulates as well as 126
entry points across the country.

The system will be important in monitoring and obtaining
accurate data on people entering and leaving the country,
immigration director-general Iman Santoso said on Wednesday.

He said the system would also help increase security in the
country, which has seen a series of terrorist attacks.

The project, which has been in the pipeline for six years,
will cost some US$200 million, Iman said, adding that his office
is seeking approval of the finance ministry.

The information from the online data base will be shared with
other state institutions such as the State Intelligence Agency
(BIN), the Attorney General's Office, the National Police and the
National Narcotics Agency. -- JP

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Police powerless
to apprehend Maria

BANDUNG: The National Police admitted on Wednesday they were
having difficulties in bringing home Maria Pauline Lumowa, a
prime suspect in the Rp 1.7 trillion (US$185 billion) BNI
scandal, for prosecution in Indonesia.

Maria, a Dutch citizen and an Indonesian by birth, is
reportedly living in Singapore.

Her foreign nationality and the absence of an extradition
treaty with Singapore has made it difficult for the Indonesian
authorities to prosecute her in Jakarta, National Police chief
Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said in Bandung, West Java.

"Maria can easily move from one country to another, and there
is nothing we can do. Based on the results of our investigation,
she has left Singapore. However, we will continue to trace her
whereabouts," he added. --JP

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More detectives
hunt bomb suspects

JAKARTA: To augment efforts to capture Malaysian fugitives
Azhari Bin Husin and Noordin Moh. Top as well as their
accomplices, police have placed detectives at subdistrict levels
to detect their hideouts.

National Police chief of detectives Comr. Gen. Suyitno Landung
Sudjono said on Wednesday the deployment was a concrete measure
to capture all bomb suspects in the first 100 days of President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's government.

"We have sent detectives to monitor rented houses, which are
often used as hideouts by the suspected bombers, in every city,
regency, district and subdistrict across the country. We hope to
arrest them as soon as possible," said Suyitno. --JP

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Suspected Terrorist
gets 10 months

JAKARTA: Another terrorist suspect was sent to prison on
Wednesday for 14 months by the Central Jakarta District Court for
using a false identity card.

Furqon Abdullah, alias Hamam Abdurrohman, was found guilty of
using a false name and birthplace on his identity card when he
was in Ambon, Maluku, for five months in 2001 during the
sectarian conflict.

His sentence will be reduced by the 10 months he has spent in
detention.

Furqon is one of the four Indonesian students arrested in
Karachi, Pakistan, in 2003, including Gun Gun Rusman Gunawan, the
brother of regional terrorist suspect Hambali. --JP