House Commission III Says KPK Supervising FA Case

“We have already conveyed that this case is being directly supervised by the KPK.”

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Habiburokhman, Chair of Commission III of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI), said the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is supervising the handling of the case involving alleged corruption and money laundering (TPPU) implicating former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes Febrie Adriansyah (FA).

“We have already conveyed that this case is being directly supervised by the KPK,” Habiburokhman said at a press conference at the DPR building in Jakarta on Monday.

He made the statement in response to a proposal by Mahfud MD, Professor at the Faculty of Law of Universitas Islam Indonesia, for the KPK to take over the handling of the case.

According to Habiburokhman, the KPK has the authority to take over the case. However, the anti-corruption body has currently been asked to supervise the handling process instead.

“Yes, of course, go ahead — the KPK has the authority,” he said.

“It amounts to the same thing, doesn’t it? So, the KPK is carrying out supervision,” he added.

Earlier, Mahfud MD, in a video uploaded to his personal YouTube channel on Sunday (12/7), questioned the transfer of the case from the National Police (Polri) to the Attorney General’s Office. He said the case-handling mechanism needed to be corrected so that the KPK could take over the case.

The National Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortastipidkor) subsequently handed over the handling of the alleged corruption and money laundering case to the Attorney General’s Office.

Head of Kortastidkor Polri, Inspector General Totok Suharyanto, said the transfer was carried out based on an agreement between Polri and the Attorney General’s Office as a form of synergy in law enforcement.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Attorney General for Supervision, who is also the Acting Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, Rudi Margono, affirmed that the Attorney General’s Office would handle the case professionally and uphold the principle of the presumption of innocence.