TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Newly appointed chief of the national police General Badrodin Haiti said that relations between his institution and the anti-graft body Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has improved.

"It’s improving,” he said in Jakarta on Friday, April 17, 2015.

Badrodin also said that the challenges that the national police will face in the future are getting bigger after relations between the two institutions was strained following the naming of Comr. General Budi Gunawan, one of the candidates for the national police chief, as a graft suspect by KPK.

As previously reported, on Friday, President Joko Widodo inaugurated Badrodin as the new chief of the national police.

Bardorin further said that one of his goals after his inauguration is to improve relations with other law enforcing institutions such as the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) and KPK.

Asked for handling graft case, Badorin said that the police would also improve cooperation with KPK, PPATK, and other law enforcing institutions.

SINGGIH SOARES