Sheany, Jakarta – A plan by Indonesia's National Police to establish a special anticorruption unit has been put on hold indefinitely due to "bad timing," Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian said on Friday (29/12).
"The plan was proposed with good intentions, the KPK (Corruption Eradication Commission) knows that. Corruption in Indonesia is so widespread... having just one institution to fight it is not enough," Tito told reporters in Jakarta.
Tito said the plan to create the police's own anticorruption unit has been in the works for almost a year, but was only recently put in the media spotlight, swept along with news of lawmakers's intensive inquiries into the KPK, which critics say are just another attempt to weaken the antigraft body.