Anita Rachman & Antara – The antigraft agency on Thursday called on the Prosperous Justice Party to help arrange for the return of fugitive Nunun Nurbaeti, one month after the woman was named a suspect in the Miranda Goeltom bribery scandal.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Busyro Muqoddas said the party should persuade senior member Adang Daradjatun, who is also Nunun's husband, to assist investigators by bringing Nunun back to Indonesia. This was appropriate, he said, because the party known as PKS describes itself as "the party that cares."

Busyro said the commission was also considering establishing a special team to bring Nunun to investigators.

Nunun is alleged to have help distributed billions of rupiah in traveler's checks to at least 30 lawmakers in exchange for their votes in the selection of Miranda as deputy governor of the Bank of Indonesia in 2004. The court has convicted 28 former and sitting lawmakers in the bribery scandal, while two suspects died before the trial began.

Busyro's remarks, however, received a cold response from PKS, which said Nunun's arrest was the responsibility of the KPK and it should not drag others into the job.

"The commission is mandated by the law to resolve legal and corruption cases," said Mahfudz Siddiq, the party's deputy secretary general. "We ask the KPK not to make the problem more complicated by asking us to do things that aren't our job."

Mahfudz said he couldn't believe that the KPK could be so clueless as to where Nunun was hiding. The commission has sophisticated technology to conduct wiretaps and track the whereabouts of suspects, so it should have more information about Nunun's location, he said.

"If KPK had the will, it could arrest Nunun in a day," he said. "I am worried that there's some kind of obstacle that keeps it from doing so."

Furthermore, he added, PKS shouldn't be linked to Nunun because it was irrelevant and would make the problem much more complicated.

"This is not because we don't care about this," he said. "But we are worried that the problem will develop to the extent that the KPK just expands on the issue to buy it some time."

Adang has repeatedly said he would not help the commission locate his wife because as a husband he couldn't be charged for obstruction of justice. The KPK asked for help from Interpol to bring Nunun back after reports suggested she had been in Singapore, Bangkok and Phnom Penh.

Busyro said another team would be formed to pick up recently dumped Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin, who is wanted for questioning in relation to two graft cases, including one related to the construction of the athletes village for the Southeast Asian Games in Palembang.

Nazaruddin is believed to be staying in Singapore with his wife, Neneng Sri Wahyuni, who is also being sought as a witness in a separate graft case.