Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A legislator at the House of Representatives commission III on Law and human rights says that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono needs to appointe an external figure to lead the Attorney General's Office (AGO) for the sake of the institution's reform.

"In the eyes of the public, the AGO's credibility has severely crumbled due to the unethical conducts by numerous attorneys," Golkar Party's Bambang Soesatyo told The Jakarta Post via a text message. Bambang added that the public had deemed the AGO was no longer a law enforcement institution.

"Instead, the public see the AGO as part of the problem, because attorneys are the ones who become the main factor in tarnishing the process of law supremacy," he said.

"Therefore, the public will doubt the commitment and the consistency of the President if he appoints a figure who has no credibility. On the contrary, the public will believe in the President willingness for upholding law supremacy if he has the courage to name a credible figure from outside the AGO," he added.

"The AGO needs assistance from the outside to cleanse itself, to conduct internal reform," he said further. As of now, the AGO is led by an interim attorney general, Dharmono, after Hendarman Supandji was taken off his post following the Constitutional Court's decision ruling him out of his legitimacy as the attorney general.