Nivell Rayda – For corruption convict Anggodo Widjojo, appealing the four-year sentence handed down to him in September likely seems like a bad idea in hindsight.

After his initial challenge was turned down by the Jakarta High Court and increased to five years, an attempt to clear his name at the Supreme Court has only led to the term being doubled.

"The sentence has now been increased to 10 years' imprisonment," Supreme Court Justice Krisna Harahap said at the conclusion of the appeals process on Thursday.

Krisna said the disgraced businessman, who was at the center of a high-profile scandal surrounding the alleged fabrication of bribery charges against two deputies from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), was guilty of attempted bribery and obstruction of justice.

In 2009, Anggodo told investigators from the National Police that he had bribed KPK deputies Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah Rp 5.1 billion ($580,000) in exchange for dropping a graft investigation into his brother, Anggoro Widjojo, who remains at large.

The accusation led to the KPK deputies being named suspects by the Attorney General's Office and subsequently suspended, nearly bringing the widely respected antigraft body to a halt.

However, the public airing of a series of wiretapped telephone conversations allegedly between Anggodo and officials at the National Police and AGO revealed that there may have been a high-level conspiracy to frame the commissioners.

The initial four-year jail term for attempted bribery came under widespread public criticism with many saying the sentence was too lenient.

Anggodo's success at getting the Constitutional Court to annul the AGO's decision this year to drop the case against Bibit and Chandra only prompted further public outcry.

This time, the Supreme Court ruling was welcomed by antigraft activists as a breakthrough for the country's legal system.