Jokowi Image Being Hurt by Lack of Effort in Novel Baswedan Case
27 December 2017 10:24 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The acid attack against Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan is far from being solved. The government has also decided to not form a fact-finding team (TGPF) to solve the case.
The urgency of forming a fact-finding team sparked debates. The KPK Chairman once said that the efficiency of a fact-finding team would be inefficient to solve the case.
On the other hand, several former KPK leaders and activists that are joined in the civil society coalition for KPK continues to push the government to form a fact-finding team.
“If there is no TGPF then there would not be any attempts to reveal the mafias who attacked Novel,” said Haris Azhar, member of Novel Baswedan’s advocate team.
If there seems to be no intention from President Joko Widodo or Jokowi and authorities to form a TGPF, he argues that the both of them can be considered to participate in the unintended attempts of making the attackers untouched.
He further reasoned that members of the public must rethink about how bad the government and state authorities’ commitment are to eradicate crimes such as corruption. He added that it might affect President Jokowi politically in the 2019 presidential election.
The attack on Novel Baswedan happened on the early mornings of Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Novel was sprayed with a glass of acid when he was walking back from a mosque nearby his house in Kelapa Gading, Jakarta.
M Yusuf Manurung