Corruption Watchdog Urges Dismissal of Police Chief, Attorney General
Wednesday, 04 November, 2009 | 21:21 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Indonesia Corruption Watch urged President Susilo bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday to strip the National Police Chief General and the Attorney General from their posts after several positions at the National Police Headquarters and the Attorney General's Office emerged in the recorded scheme to free a suspect and frame two investigators from the anti-graft commission.

Coordinator of the corruption watchdog Danang Widoyoko said Police General Bambang Hendarso Danuri and Attorney General Hendarman Supandji have “failed to reform the national police and the prosecutor's office,” and replacements on the two positions should simplify the reform works.

Further Danang said head of the Investigation and Crime Unit Commissioner General Susno Duadji and Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hakim Ritonga should be suspended from their posts.

The group advised the government to seize the opportunity to review the position of the national police. “Its time now that the national police is not positioned under the president,” suggesting the institution should be under the Home Affairs Department.

To provide internal controll of the two institutions the Indonesia Corruption Watch also suggested that the existing commission in the national police and the prosecutor's office should be given the authority to sanction violations within the institutions.

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