TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Deputy Head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Basaria Panjaitan, said that the anti-graft commission are still collating background information and evidences relating to the Bank Century and the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Fund (BLBI).
"We are still on the case," said Basaria in Padang, West Sumatra on Thursday evening, September 15, 2016.
Basaria added that investigations into both cases are still pending - as KPK has yet to acquire enough evidences. That said, Basaria refused to go into further details relating to what sort of evidences that KPK has gained so far in relation to the cases, which has caught the public's attention for years. "I will have to look into it first before I can say anything," she said.
According to Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) records, KPK has attempted to get to the bottom of the BLBI case - for example, in 2007, former KPK Chief Antasari Azhar formed four teams to investigate the massive corruption scandal.
More recently in 2014, the anti-graft commission had summoned several high-ranking officials from President Megawati Soekarnoputri's administration - including Rizal Ramli, and Laksamana Sukardi.
Efforts to bring light into the case seemed to evaporate into thin air, after several KPK leaders and investigators were slapped with criminal charges - many of which were perceived as an attempt to stop KPK from looking further into the cases.
ANDRI EL FARUQI