Jakarta – Ending its two-year term Wednesday, the future of the Interdepartmental Anti-Corruption Team is now in the hands of the government.

The team has stopped its work as it waits for the government to decide whether to extend its term. It will not process cases already in the pipeline and has shut its doors to new public complaints, team chairman Hendarman Supandji said Friday.

Hendarman said the team was inventorying all its unfinished cases and would transfer them to the National Police and prosecutors' offices for follow-up.

"We also have prepared the paperwork that will be needed if the government eventually decides to dissolve the team," Hendarman said as quoted by detik.com.

Formed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2005, the 45-strong team of graft-busters is made up of representatives from prosecutors' offices, the police and the state financial comptroller.

It is meant to reinforce existing anti-graft bodies, such as the Corruption Eradication Commission, which has been credited with trying and convicting high-profile graft suspects.

Hendarman said the team was processing 280 complaints as of Wednesday, with some of the complaints having already gone to court.

"We will transfer the public complaints to the relevant institutions (police and prosecutors) if the team is eventually dissolved."

Indonesian Corruption Watch said that despite its relative successes, the team should be strengthened if Yudhoyono chooses to extend its mandate.

"The team is quite an achievement for the Yudhoyono administration, although its performance is still far from satisfactory," said the ICW's legal advocacy coordinator Emerson Yuntho.

Emerson pointed out that of 24 graft cases at state-owned enterprises the team has handled, only six have gone to court.

He alleged Yudhoyono's intervention prevented the team from wiping out corruption at the top levels of the bureaucracy, such as the State Secretariat.