TWO PARTY FACTIONS TO NAME THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR CENTURY SCANDAL

Jakarta, Feb 19 (ANTARA) - Two party factions in the House Bank Century Inquiry Committee are to name the persons deemed responsible for the Bank Century scandal at a committee meeting next Wednesday (Feb 24), faction spokesmen said.

The Golkar Party and Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) factions would do so in their final conclusions on the case at an internal Committee consultative meeting on Wednesday.

"The Golkar Party faction's stance is very clear. We will mention the names of those responsible for the granting of bailout funds to Bank Century," one of the party's representatives in the House Inquiry Committee, Bambang Soesatyo, said here Friday.

He made the statement in a public discussion themed "Weighing the Political Risks of the House Bank Century Inquiry Committee's Conclusions,"
Golkar would name the responsible people because the Committee had discovered data and facts on irregularities in the granting of short-term financing facility (FPJP) and temporary capital participation (PMS) funds to the troubled bank, he said.

The inquiry committee's work had all along been intensively covered by the media so that, according to Bambang, "all the matters involved in the Bank Century bailout issue are now crystal clear and transparent."
Since early on, the Golkar Party had already listed several bodies as being responsible in the Bank Century case, namely the Bank Indonesia, the Financial System Stability Committee (KSSK), the Coordination Committee (KK), and the Deposit Insurance Institute (LPS), he said.

The Golkar Party would remain consistent, and stick to the stance it had made known earlier, Bambang said. "Otherwise, our credibility will suffer. We will lose the public's trust," he added.

Similarly, Andi Rahmat, a PKS representative in the House Bank Century Inquiry Committee, said his faction would mention the names of the people it was holding responsible for the Bank Century bailout in its final statements on the case.

"We must mention the names so that things will become clearer and there will be greater focus in the Committee's conclusions. Without the names, the committee's final report will be biased," he said.