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Jakarta Post - February 11, 2015

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Jakarta – An NGO reported Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prevention unit head Johan Budi and former KPK deputy chief Chandra M. Hamzah to the National Police's Criminal Investigations Directorate (Bareskrim) on Tuesday evening for misusing their power.

"I come here as a citizen and as director of an NGO to report former KPK leader Chandra M. Hamzah and Johan Budi," Government Against Corruption and Discrimination director Andar Situmorang announced at National Police headquarters in South Jakarta, as quoted by tempo.co.

Andar accused Chandra and Johan of abusing their power by managing relationships with people who were involved in graft cases handled by the commission.

Andar said that both commissioners violated the Criminal Code's (KUHP) Article 36 and Article 37 as well as articles 65, 66 and 67 of the 2002 Corruption Law.

According to his testimony, Chandra and Johan met with former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin; twice in Nazaruddin's house, twice in restaurants and once at the KPK headquarters in Kuningan, South Jakarta. The rifts between the KPK and the National Police intensified after the antigraft body declared police chief nominee Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a suspect on Jan. 13.

The police then declared Bambang Widjojanto, KPK deputy chairman, a suspect on Jan. 23 for allegedly encouraging perjury in a local election dispute in 2010.

Soon after arresting Bambang, they opened a new investigation into another deputy chairman, Adnan Pandu Praja, who was reported to the police for illegally taking over the shares of a logging company, PT Desy Timber, in Berau, East Kalimantan.

Currently, the police are also looking into a possible abuse of authority involving KPK chairman Abraham Samad for his alleged efforts to recommend a lenient prison sentence for Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lawmaker Emir Moeis.

An NGO from East Java also filed a report against Zulkarnain on allegations that he mishandled a graft case when he served as East Java chief prosecutor in 2009. (nfo)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/02/11/johan-budi-reported-police.html.