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Tue, 08/25/2009 - 23:30
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PRESIDENT ADVISED TO USE LEGISLATIVE POWER TO FORM ANTI-CORRUPTION COURT
Jakarta, Aug 25 (ANTARA)- A political observer said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had better use his special legislative powers to set up an anti-corruption court because it was doubtful the House of Representatives (DPR) will be able to produce the needed law in time.
Prof Dr Iberamsjah of the University of Indonesia (UI) said the House Special Committee on the Anti-Corruption Court Bill had set itself the target of finishing its job in September 2009 but there was growing doubt the committee would deliver.
He said, since the beginning, parliament had actually been dragging its heels on the bill and now, with many of the committee members having failed to get reelected in the April elections, they would most likely not be able to accomplish their task.
"One of the obvious obstacles in the present legislative process is that these legislators harbor a grudge about the fact that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has arrested many of their peers. So they would rather let KPK lose its effectiveness (by not creating a anti-corruption court)," he said.
Therefore, Iberamsjah said, he would advise President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to issue a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on the formation of an anti-corruption court that would handle the cases uncovered by the KPK.
A Perppu was also preferable because the bill that had been presented to the parliament by the law and human rights ministry would actually weaken the KPK as it contained clauses stripping the KPK of its prosecution powers.
Under a standing Constitutional Court ruling, the existence of an anti-corruption court must be based on a law by December 2009 at the latest.
Prof Dr Iberamsjah of the University of Indonesia (UI) said the House Special Committee on the Anti-Corruption Court Bill had set itself the target of finishing its job in September 2009 but there was growing doubt the committee would deliver.
He said, since the beginning, parliament had actually been dragging its heels on the bill and now, with many of the committee members having failed to get reelected in the April elections, they would most likely not be able to accomplish their task.
"One of the obvious obstacles in the present legislative process is that these legislators harbor a grudge about the fact that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has arrested many of their peers. So they would rather let KPK lose its effectiveness (by not creating a anti-corruption court)," he said.
Therefore, Iberamsjah said, he would advise President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to issue a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on the formation of an anti-corruption court that would handle the cases uncovered by the KPK.
A Perppu was also preferable because the bill that had been presented to the parliament by the law and human rights ministry would actually weaken the KPK as it contained clauses stripping the KPK of its prosecution powers.
Under a standing Constitutional Court ruling, the existence of an anti-corruption court must be based on a law by December 2009 at the latest.
