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[JAKARTA] The Parliament had to finish Corruption Court Draft Bill to transform this as an Act in 2008.

Entering the year 2009, normally all members of the Parliament would be busy by themselves related to the holding of the general election. Meanwhile the time limit provided by the Constitutional Court to finish the Act was June 2009.

The emphasize was stated by the Head of Management Board of People’s Legal Aid, Taufik Basari and Director of Anti-corruption Study Center in Law Faculty of Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, Denny Indrayana in Jakarta, Tuesday (2/9).

As reported, the Constitutional Court in their decision in mid 2006 stated that it was not right the regulation concerning Corruption Court be put inside Act No. 30/2002 on Corruption Eradication Commission.

For that, the Constitutional Court ordered the legislators (The Parliament and the Government) to make a separated Corruption Court and had to be finished within three months time after the decision is read.

If until the time limit reached and it was not completed, then the Corruption Court would be deleted and all corruption files coming from the Corruption Commission would be brought in general trial. The Parliament since the beginning should have prioritized the settlement of Corruption Court Draft Bill.

Taufik said that up to this moment there were so many parties, including the members of the Parliament intending the Corruption Court not to be legalized in an Act and consequently it would be deleted. If the Corruption Court was deleted then all cases investigated and followed up by the Corruption Commission, would be brought before the general court.

"if the cases handled by the Corruption Commission are brought to general courts, the Corruption Eradication Commission had better be erased because general courts until now still have bad reputation," said Taufik.

Speaking with the same tone, the Director of Anti-corruption Study Center in Law Faculty of Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, Denny Indrayana, requested the Parliament to discuss and legalized the Draft Bill as soon as possible. If the Parliament had not started the discussion, Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had to issue a Government Decree Acting as A Law for Corruption Court. That was done to anticipat the Parliament failed to complete the law making process.

"The President has to be aware of a grand scenario in the Parliament so that the Corruption Court failed to be formed," said Denny.

Vice Head of Commission III of the Parliament, Aziz Syamsuddin, said on Monday (1/9), the Parliament had tried to complete the Draft Bill and passed it on to an Act in 2008. "I hope that it will be finished in 2008," he answered lightly. [E-8]

Source: http://www.suarapembaruan.com/News/2008/09/02/Nasional/nas08.htm

Photo: Courtesy of Constitutional Court Public Relation Doc. 

translated by: Yogi Djatnika

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