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New KPK chief must adapt quickly

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Jakarta Post - November 26, 2010

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has urged its new chairman to quickly fine-tune the commission's system to foster corruption eradication.

"We urged Busyro to adapt quickly to our system, so we could promptly continue our task in investigating corruption cases," deputy chief Bibit Samad Rianto said Friday at the KPK building.

Bibit was referring to Busyro Muqoddas, who was made the new KPK chairman through a House of Representatives' Commission III vote on Thursday.

Bibit said that there was already reform within the KPK system, regardless of Busyro's ideas to reform the KPK as he presented during the fit and proper test for the KPK's deputy chief earlier on Thursday.

"With Busyro's experience handling bad judges during his tenure as the Judicial Commission's chairman, we hope he could provide us extra power to eradicate corruption," he added.

However, Bibit lamented Busyro's appointment as merely a political decision justified under pertinent law. (ipa)

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