KPKPN challenges anticorruption law

KPKPN challenges anticorruption law

JAKARTA: Striving to maintain its existence, the Public
Servants' Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) is seeking a judicial
review with the Supreme Court against Law No. 30, 2002 on the
establishment of an anticorruption commission to replace the
KPKPN.

KPKPN chairman Jusuf Sjakir said KPKPN had appointed a team of
lawyers led by Amir Syamsuddin to pursue the case.

He said the request for a judicial review was accepted on
Monday by Supreme Court chief for civil and state administration
Paulus Effendi Lotulung.

Jusuf said KPKPN members wanted the commission to be
maintained alongside the planned anticorruption commission to be
established in accordance with the anticorruption law enacted
late last year.

"We also ask the House of Representatives to amend the law.
Nineteen legislators have stated their readiness to support us,"
he said. --Antara