TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The police seem to be serious in naming Denny Indrayana as a graft suspect in the Payment Gateway project.
This move seems to be careless as there is no evidence of the loss of state money in the provision of e-passport service.
The accusation to the suspect is also obscure.
The police accused Denny of playing his role in instructing some people to procure the e-passport project and in facilitating vendors in 2014.
At that time, former anti-corruption was still appointed as Deputy Minister of Justice and Human Rights.
However, so far, the police have not revealed corruption allegation clearly.
Even officials and business partners of the project who were directly in charge of the project have not been charged.
This is the weakness of the investigation done by The National Police Criminal Investigation Directorate (Bareskrim).
Normally, investigation of a graft case begins from the low level before involving higher-ranked officials and corruption allegation will be more easily discerned by the public if the police show flow of money or bribery to officials or his superiors who give the project.
So far, the police have also not revealed the matter.
Loss in the state money?
The police only said that revenues from the fee of making passports that reached yang Rp32 billion should have been submitted to the state treasury.
In this project, the money went to the bank account of the business partner that implement the project, namely PT Nusa Satu Inti Artha as the provider of payment switch and PT Finnet Indonesia as the provider of payment aggregator.
However, Danny’s lawyers asserted that all the revenues had been deposited to the state treasury as non-tax revenues.
When it comes to money, it must be proven because Denny was charged with Article 2 and 3 of the Law on the Eradication of Corruption.
Article 2 underlines actions against the law, and Article 3 is about misuses of authority.
However, both articles state personal gain or other’s gain and losses of state money.
It is all these irregularities that lead to suspicion: The police might have tried to find fault in Denny, who has so far been a vocal critic of the police.
When the Corruption Eradication Commission was in conflict with the National Police yang triggered by the case of Commissioner General Budi Gunawan, Denny publicly voiced his support for KPK.
President Joko Widodo should not have let the police who seem to target those who are considered to be against the institution.
The President should give a firm and clear instruction of Deputy Chairman of the National Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti.
We do not want that the image of the police get worse because of the perception that the police do criminalization against KPK leaders and those who are behind it.
Law enforcement is of great importance, especially when it comes to the fight against corruption.
The police should have arrested those who really commit crimes and steal state money, instead of finding faults of an anticorruption who defends KPK.
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