DPR Admits Budget Sanctions are Option
Several activists from a number of interfaith communities stage a rally in Semarang, Central Java, on Wednesday (21/6) to protest efforts to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). The activists supported all efforts to eradicate corruption by the KPK and urged the House of Representatives to dissolve the special committee of inquiry into the antigraft body.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Although a proposal to freeze the budgets of the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in 2018 has only come from individual members of an inquiry committee of the House of Representatives (DPR), the committee is nevertheless considering it as a way to impose sanctions.
If the House freezes the KPK and police budgets, both institutions fear it will disrupt their activities.