Jakarta – The House of Representatives and the National Police have played their roles in concerted efforts to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), a seminar heard on Wednesday.

Chairman of the Transparancy International Indonesia (TII) Todung Mulya Lubis told a seminar held by Atma Jaya University efforts to undermine the KPK were evident in the judicial review filed against the KPK law, false charges filed against KPK deputy chiefs Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah, the House's initiative to demand an audit on the anti-graft commission and the police's move to pull out its investigators from the KPK.

Todung said the attacks targeted the KPK as an institution and its individual leaders.

He also deemed formation of corruption courts in provincial capital cities as another attempt to undermine the KPK. "It does not make sense. We already face difficulties in recruiting KPK prosecutors in Jakarta, how can we hire prosecutors in all provincial capitals across the country?" he said as quoted by kompas.com.

Another speaker in the seminar, Febri Diansyah of the Indonesia Corruption Watch, said all the attempts to weaken the KPK would only end with the dissolution of the commission. "The final goal is to dissolve the KPK," he said.

ICW data revealed 176 corruption cases in the first semester of the year implicating 441 people. The graft cases are believed to have caused Rp 2.34 trillion. "We estimate the real number of graft cases is four times our findings," Febri said.