Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has dismissed and demoted 24 prosecutors and 94 others were punished for abusing their authority, lack of discipline or other violations.

"They have demonstrated a lack of discipline and have abused their power, among other violations," Deputy Attorney General Darmono said on Monday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com while speaking during a hearing with the House of Representatives Legal and Human Rights Commission.

Darmono explained that the 118 prosecutors who were punished were involved in 19 cases of insubordination, 129 cases abuse of authority and 11 cases of "disgraceful" acts. For those cases, 13 prosecutors were demoted and 11 were dismissed.

Darmono said he would improve internal supervision within the AGO by surprise inspections of regional offices to monitor the performance of his subordinates. Darmono added that he had inspected 31 offices in various regions from January to July 2011.