President Wants Cases Clarified Further
Surabaya (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono`s special adviser for political communications, Daniel Sparingga, said the President wants the Bibit-Chandra and Bank Century cases brought to greater clarity.
"The President wants the cases of Bibit-Chandra and Bank Century (2-BC) to be investigated further because he really does not have anything to hide," Daniel told ANTARA here on Saturday.
Sparingga who is also a sociologist of state University of Airlangga in Surabaya, East Java, officially became the president`s special adviser on November 20, 2009.
Therefore, he said, the President would make his stance on the two cases known to the public next Monday.
"Later, he will present his plan to build a transparent and accountable state management tradition. He will present an action plan on organizational management of the police, the attorney general`s office and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)," he said.
On a separate occasion, a law expert from the same university, Dr Hadi Subhan, said if the government wished to learn a lesson from the two cases, it should form a state commission to evaluate existing state institutions to make them more effective.
"I know the police already have the Kompolnas (National Police Commission), the Attorney General`s Office has the Judicial Commission and the KPK its supervisory committee and so do other institutions but they all are not effective because they only have the right to make recommendations, not the right to take measures," he said.
A state commission, he said, would make evaluations and recommendations but also have the power to implement its recommendations on behalf of the president.
"So, a state commission is needed to put the existing state institutions in order. For example, the commission could evaluate if the police should be put under the ministry of home affairs so that they really become civilian and so forth," he said.
Sharing Subhan`s view, the director of the Legal Aid Institute in Surabaya, M Syaiful Aris, said the state commission must be an ad hoc body.
"If it is made permanent it would burden the state`s budget and overlap with other institutions. I agree that it should be assigned to optimize the existing institutions and evaluate those that have have not performed optimally. If everything has returned to the right track, the commission can be dissolved," he said. (*)
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PubDate: 11/22/09 03:31
