Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives declined during Tuesday's plenary to name three disgraced lawmakers that are facing sanctions from the House Ethics Council, due to personal considerations.

Deputy House Speaker Anis Matta said during the plenary session that House leaders had received letters from the Ethics Council informing them of the verdicts.

"Actually there's a mechanism to announce the names," he said. "However, when it comes to personal [information] we don't announce it [in session]," Anis said.

He did, however, confirm the identity of one of the lawmakers being punished. "Pak Izzul is being dismissed," he said, referring to Izzul Islam from the United Development Party (PPP), who was convicted of diploma forgery.

Anis refused to confirm if another lawmaker who was punished was As'ad Syam of the ruling Democratic Party. Last year, As'ad began serving a four-year prison term in a Rp 4 billion ($468,000) corruption conviction from early 2009.