Anggodo Widjojo arrives at Police Headquarters in Jakarta. (ANTARA/Kencana/*)
"We hope the police will not easily let Anggodo go his way but continue to keep a watch on him, because he could well be needed as a key witness," Adrianus Meliala, a criminologist at the University of Indonesia (UI), said here on Thursday.
Commenting on reports that Anggodo was questioned by police but not detained, Adrianus said in normative terms of conventional judicial principles, the police`s decision to let Anggodo go free was not wrong.
"It is understandable because in terms of conventional judiciary principles, it is corect. Police cannot be blamed," he said.
However, he added, developments in the field had formed a public opinion that Anggodo was guilty and must be detained.
It was reported earlier that Anggodo was released Wednesday after he was quizzed by the police for 24 hours but police had not found enough proof to name him a suspect in an alleged plot to frame Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)`s leaders and undermine the anti-graft body.
However, National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said Anggodo had not yet been released and he was still under investigation by the Police`s Criminal Investigation Department.
Anggodo was a central figure in wiretapped conversations among certain police officers and prosecutors in a suspected effort to criminalize the KPK.
The bugged conversations were replayed in a Constitutional Court (MK) session on Tuesday and received a wide response from the publlic.
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