‘RIVALRY’ BETWEEN ANTI-GRAFT BODY AND POLICE CONTINUING

Jakarta, Sept 29 (ANTARA) – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) reported chief detective, Commissioner General Susno Duaji, to police on Monday over an alleged non procedural investigation on KPK leaders.     The Police’s Criminal Investigation Department will at the same time begin this week to grill two remaining KPK deputies as witnesses over an alleged power [...]

TEMASEK LOSES LEGAL BATTLE IN RI’S SUPREME COURT

Jakarta, Sept 12 (ANTARA) – After a legal battle for about five months, Singapore’s state-owned investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd has to accept an unfavorable decision by the Indonesian Supreme Court (MA). The highest law enforcing body rejected Temasek’s legal review suit against a ruling by Indonesia’s Business [...]

FOUR MORE CONVICTS ON DEATH ROW TO BE EXECUTED IN INDONESIA

Jakarta, July 4 (ANTARA) – After carrying out the execution by firing squad of two Nigerian drug offenders last week, Indonesian public prosecutors are planning to implement the death sentences of  five more convicts this month.
         The plan to execute the five convicts who have been on death row for years is part of the [...]

TWO NIGERIAN DRUG CONVICTS EXECUTED IN INDONESIA

     Indonesia executed two Nigerians, Samuel Iwuchukwu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaolisa who have been on death row for dug offenses since 2001, in Nusakambangan Island, Central Java, at 11.30 pm local time Thursday night.
      According to Indonesia’s National News Agency ANTARA, the two Nigerians were executed before a firing squad in Nirbaya area, Nuskambangan Island, where a prison [...]

INDONESIA TO EXECUTE 57 DRUG OFFENDERS

      Jakarta, June 26 (ANTARA) -  Indonesian authorities plan to speed up the execution of at least 57 drug offenders, some of whom have been on death row since 1994.
      The plan to speed up the execution of the convicts, including two Nigerians who are likely to be executed Thursday night, came up at a State Palace [...]

JAKARTA POLICE DETAIN FORMER DEPUTY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF

 Jakarta, June 20 (ANTARA) – After two convicts are now put behind bars in the murder case of human right activist Munir Said Thalib, the Indonesian National Police Headquarters is now detaining former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Maj Gen (ret) Muchdi Purwopranjono for alleged implications in the case.
     Police have served a summon [...]

INDONESIA IS QUESTIONING TOP PROSECUTORS FOR A BRIBERY SCANDAL

       Jakarta, June 17 (ANTARA) – The Indonesian Attorney General’s Office (AGO) is questioning several of its top officers for alleged links with a bribery case after a record of bugged conversations was released in last week’s corruption criminal court session.
         The AGO officials being investigated are Junior Attorney General for Civil and State Administrative [...]