Law enforcement feud hampers Indonesia’s anti-corruption efforts

By Anjar Asmara

Source:Global Times Published: 2015-2-8 19:33:01

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Indonesian police and its Corruption Eradication Commission (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi in Indonesian, or KPK) are both supposed to be tackling the country's endemic corruption. But at present, they seem to be spending more time fighting each other. The police just upped the ante in the long-running feud by arresting Bambang Widjojanto, a board member of the KPK, on charges of false testimony in a case five years ago. This was prompted by the KPK's naming of Budi Gunawan, sole pick to be the next national police chief, as a suspect in a bribery case.

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