Watchdog Barks at Illegal Commutations for Corruptors

Tempo Interactive, Wednesday, 18 August, 2010 | 21:29 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The Indonesia Corruption Watch has resumed criticism against the indonesia judiciary system, this time at the Justice Department who had involved the watchdog in the selection process for the new chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission.

The Law and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar had been lashed for the commutations for felons punished for corruption despite special restrictions for commutation on corruption and terrorism.

Emerson Yuntho Vice Coordinator of the watchdog said "there is regulation against sentence reduction for convicted corruptors and terrorism (before they serve one third of their terms)."

The watchdog said the Law Department is not committed to the regulation which governs them as sentence reduction were handed to several very important prisoners to mark the Independence Day on yesterday.

Some of the important convicts are Aulia Pohan, father in-law of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's eldest son. The ex-Bank Indonesia deputy was given four and a half years last June and received three months of term cut yesterday.

Danny Setiawan ex-West Java governor got 110-day cut of his four year term after less than 14 months in jail.

Al-Amien Nasution, former lawmaker with the United development Party who was sentenced to eight years in prison in january 2009 got four months reduction.

Abdul Hadi Djamal ex-lawmaker from the National Mandate Party got more than eighty day remission who actually need to serve uncut sentence until october this year to get a legal reduction.

And the newest kid on the block, Ret. Inspector General Udju Djuhaeri ex-lawmaker from the Military and Police faction who was jailed for bribery in the selection of Miranda Gultom as the senior deputy of Bank Indonesia in 2004, got one and a half month discount after just three months in the joint of his two year sentence.

SANDY INDRA PRATAMA | KORAN TEMPO

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