Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says the recent acquittal of Bekasi mayor Mochtar Muhammad was the 25th acquittal to be handed down by a regional graft court since they were first established two years ago.

"Our records show that over the past two years, regional graft courts nationwide have granted freedom to 25 graft defendants," ICW legal monitoring coordinator Febri Diansyah said Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.

Among these, Semarang Corruption Court has acquitted one, Surabaya Corruption Court has acquitted 21 and Bandung Corruption Court has acquitted three, including Mochtar.

Febri added that he suspected that the high rate of acquittals was a result of poor preparations on the part of the Supreme Court, which was asked with the establishment of regional graft courts under an ammendment to the graft court law.