Busyro: Jokowi Must Take Action on Terror against Novel Baswedan
11 April 2017 09:06 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Busyro Muqoddas, former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief, has commented on the hydrochloric acid attack on the agency`s investigator Novel Baswedan. “It is a prove that the forces opposing the KPK are getting more and more brutal and real in carrying out terror on Novel Baswedan and the KPK personnel,” he said.
Read: KPK`s Novel Baswedan Falls Victim to Hydrochloric Acid Attack
Novel Baswedan and the KPK, according to Busyro, have been terrorized repeatedly. “Novel Baswedan had been hit [by cars] repeatedly and now he has been attacked with hydrochloric acid,” Busyro told Tempo in a phone interview. Busyro has called on President Joko Widodo to take action.
“President Joko Widodo has to take action by forming a joint team to investigate the case,” Busyro said.
Novel Baswedan is currently being treated at Mitra Keluarga Hospital in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta. He suffers wounds to his face and eyes.
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