TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The House of Representatives` (DPR) Inquiry Right Special Committee sent the second summons for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Tuesday, October 17.
Committee deputy chairman Eddy Wijaya Kusuma hopes the anti-graft commission would answer the summons. Eddy, who is a politician from the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), said if the KPK failed to answer the summons, the committee would send the third and final summons.
“If [the KPK] still refuses to answer the third [summons], we will ask for help from the National Police to pick them up by force,” Eddy said at the Senayan Parliamentary Complex in Jakarta today.
He believes that the National Police would help the DPR to pick up the KPK leaders, although the National Police Chief earlier questioned about the procedures. According to Eddy, the DPR had explained that it is governed by the law on legislative institutions (MD3).
He hopes the KPK would answer the summons and attend the meeting. Eddy claimed that the committee is not aiming at weakening the KPK, but to improve and support the anti-graft commission in conducting effective corruption eradication efforts.
“There’s nothing to fear from the special committee. Let us improve KPK’s performance together,” he said.
Earlier, KPK leaders repeatedly stated that they would not attend a joint meeting with the Inquiry Right Special Committee. The KPK was waiting for the Constitutional Court (MK) to issue a decision on the judicial review of the inquiry right article in the Law on Legislative Institutions.
AHMAD FAIZ IBNU SANI