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Indonesia: 14 New Corruption Courts Begin Operation |
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thejakartapost.com |
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Friday, April 29, 2011 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Indonesia |
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May 03, 2011 |
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The Supreme Court inaugurated on Thursday 14 new ad-hoc corruption courts in 14 provinces amid rising concern over rampant corruption in the regions.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Harifin Tumpa symbolically officiated the courts at a ceremony at the Banjarmasin District Court in South Kalimantan.
Those graft courts were located in South Kalimantan’s Banjarmasin, Riau’s Pekanbaru, South Sumatra’s Palembang, South Sulawesi’s Makassar, West Kalimantan’s Pontianak and North Sulawesi’s Manado. The Supreme Court earlier opened graft courts in West Java’s Bandung, East Java’s Surabaya, Central Java’s Semarang and North Sumatra’s Medan.
Under the 2009 Corruption Court Law, the Supreme Court had to establish 33 corruption courts by the end of this year.
“The deadline for establishing the courts was October of this year. We plan to open another 14 courts before the deadline ends,” Supreme Court spokesperson Hatta Ali said, adding that in order to carry out the plan, the Supreme Court had been holding recruitment for ad-hoc judges for the courts, which would require more than 390.
Hatta said that with the establishment of corruption courts in the nation’s 33 provinces, graft cases that occurred in those regions would no longer be tried at Jakarta’s Corruption Court. The new courts will also try cases from both the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Attorney General’s Office (AGO).
Bekasi Mayor Mochtar Muhammad was among the first defendants to stand trial at the new Bandung graft court. He is facing a 20-year prison sentence for his alleged involvement in four bribery and corruption cases in the disbursement of the 2008-2010 city budget that cost the state Rp 5.2 billion (US$603,200).
The ad-hoc corruption court in Jakarta was established in 2003 as mandated by the 2002 law that also established the KPK.
The establishment of a special commission and a special court to combat corruption was then considered required amid declining public trust in existing law enforcement institutions.
Anti-graft watchdogs have lauded Jakarta’s Corruption Court for its credibility in trying graft cases. Since its establishment, the court has never acquitted a single corruption defendant. (By Tifa Asrianti)
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