Jakarta – A lawmaker on Monday demanded the ousting of the Justice and Human Rights Ministry's penitentiary director general after another photograph was circulating online that seemed to be showing a high-profile graft convict driving a car while he is supposed to be behind bars.

The undated photograph, uploaded on Friday on the Kompasiana web forum, shows graft convict Gayus Tambunan, who is serving a combined sentence of 30 years in prison for tax evasion, document forgery and bribing law enforcers, driving a car with a woman sitting in the back row of the vehicle.

The photo came less than a month after another photograph of Gayus having lunch at a Jakarta restaurant with two women led to nationwide criticism of the Indonesian penal system, which often grants special privileges to wealthy inmates.

In the newly released photograph both Gayus and the unidentified woman appear to be wearing the same clothing as in the photograph that went viral last month, suggesting it was likely taken on the same day.

"These are two fatal mistakes made by the Director General of Penitentiary [I Wayan Kusmiantha Dusak] which should have been enough for the minister [Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly] to replace [Wayan]," Sufmi Dasco Ahmad of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party said in a statement.

Wayan had earlier said Gayus was allowed to leave his cell to attend his divorce trial hearings, but added that Gayus was not supposed to also have lunch in a restaurant – or, presumably, drive around town.

The director general had promised a full investigation into the first incident, which Sufmi argued had not been completed, highlighting the fact that the director general was not even aware that Gayus had apparently also had been driving a car.

"We don't know what other trips Gayus was allowed to make by prison officials," the lawmaker said.

Years ago, a wig-wearing Gayus, a former tax official, was spotted enjoying a tennis match in Bali while he was supposed to be in his cell.

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