Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has urged the National Police to investigate the testimony made by the now executed drug lord Freddy Budiman about bribes he allegedly gave to law enforcers.
The President instructed National Police chief Tito Karnavian to establish a team to investigate the testimony Freddy gave to the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) before his execution.
"It's been established in the National Police [...] Trace, expose and process if the fact is in line with what he has conveyed," Jokowi said in an official statement on Thursday in Jakarta, adding that he invited anyone who was capable of uncovering such cases to join the team.
In his testimony to Kontras coordinator Haris Azhar, Freddy claimed that officials from the National Police, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) and the Indonesian Military (TNI) were involved in his international drug network.
He claimed that he operated his drug network with the support of top officials of the three institutions and he paid large sums of money to them. He did not reveal any names, however.
Haris, who is now facing legal action because of it, released the testimony through social media one day before the drug lord was executed on the Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap, Central Java, on July 29. (ags)