Jakarta – Hundreds of people who called themselves The People's Movement for Education, Politics, Law, and Human Rights (Gempita), Friday afternoon, gathered outside the Corruption Eradication Comission (KPK) building. They urged the KPK to immediately reform and rid themselves of corruptors.
The names of Antasari Azhar, Chandra Hamzah, and Bibit Samad Rianto were thrown around as corrupt high-ranking KPK officials. The demonstrators also firmly stated their support to the National Police to continue its legal process for those three names.
"Clean the KPK from those 'rats', namely Antasari, Bibit, and Chandra who degraded the KPK as an institution to fight corruption," said one of the orators from the top of a car.
The coordinator of the act, Alfian Siregar, stated that the KPK as a legal institution must comply to legal processes as stated by the Law if its leaders are involved in a case. "KPK must be clean of corruptors who would pitch this institution against other legal institutions," said Alfian.
Those hundreds of people also tried to enter the KPK building and asked to meet the KPK Chief, but they were stopped. This action was secured tightly by the police. The demonstration caused a traffic jam along the Rasuna Said street, Kuningan, South Jakarta. (C11-09/C17-09)