Indonesia embroiled in corruption saga
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INDONESIA’S anti-corruption agency has banned the speaker of parliament from overseas travel for six months in connection with a graft case involving new national identity cards, an agency official said yesterday.
The case is one of the biggest tests facing the agency, known by its Indonesian initials KPK.
The agency said US$170 million was believed to have been stolen from the budget for the procurement of electronic identity cards.
The agency has come under repeated criticism from the establishment as it fights to root out corruption.
An unidentified attacker threw acid at a senior KPK investigator handling the ID card case early yesterday, Jakarta police said.
The investigator, Novel Baswedan, was being treated in hospital and police were investigating whether the attack was related to his work.
The KPK has declined to comment on the attack.
The agency has put two suspects in the case on trial and they have told a court that at least 37 politicians benefited from the theft of funds from the ID procurement budget, including speaker Setya Novanto.
Novanto, who is also the chairman of Indonesia’s second-biggest political party, Golkar, has not been charged and has previously denied wrongdoing.
A public relations official for the KPK, Ipi Maryati, said Novanto had been banned from travel so that “whenever his information is needed in the investigation of the case, he’s not out of the country.”
The accusations made against Novanto and others, set out by the KPK in an indictment, said that sums ranging from US$5,000 to US$5.5 million were divided up in a room in parliament to members of various parties, including the one backing President Joko Widodo.
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