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Corruption eradication needed more than just arresting and putting the suspects behind bars, there had to be a change in the State Administrators way of thinking. That was the message delivered by the Vice Head of Pencegahan of Corruption Eradication Commission to the employees of the Constitutional Court.

”There should be a change in the mindset of State Officers, especially the ones in judiciary institutions,” stated M. Jasin in the commemoration of World s Anti-Corruption Day held by the General Secretariat and Registrar of the Constitutional Court, Tuesday (9/12) morning, in the Constitutional Court Building, Jakarta.

Jasin added, the change in the bureaucrats mindset to be more honest was clearly needed if Indonesia tried to reduce the habit of corruption. ”That is in case we try to reduce (corruption), not to diminish it,” he said.

Related to the efforts taken by the Constitutional Court to create transparent and fair trials, Jasin added that the Corruption Commission appreciated that highly. ”The Corruption Eradication Commission really appreciate the Constitutional Court s efforts that have tried to implement transparency and accountability in every decision and the judicial process,” he continued.

Killing Slowly
Answering the question from one of the employees about the follow up of the Court s decision on Corruption Court, M. Jasin explained that such case was beyond the Commission s jurisdiction. He said that the discussion on the Act on Corruptive Actions belonged to the jurisdiction and the authority of the Parliament. The Corruption Commission were merely the actor to implement the act.

Even though so, continued Jasin, if the process were indeed made to be slow, it showed the effort to kill the Corruption Commission slowly. ”This can be an effort to kill the Commission slowly,” he revealed.

As many knows, the Constitutional Court considered the Act on Corruption Acts Eradication Commission which inside also regulated the corruption court, violated the 1945 Constitution. Even though so, the Court provided three years period for the legislators to revise the Act before it was considered expired. The deadline would be on December 2009.

Meanwhile, when delivering his speech before Jasin, the Secretary General of the Constitutional Court, Janedjri M. Gaffar told M. Jasin the efforts taken by the Court to create a modern, trustworthy and corruption-free judicial system.

”Alhamdulillah (Thank God Almighty), because the Court is a relatively new institution, we have succeeded in creating a judicial and bureaucratic system which is simple and cheap for all justice seekers,” said Janedjri.

Janedjri also informed that the Constitutional Court had developed a transparent culture in its procedural system and in providing services to the people. Such efforts were among other showing the decision in real time as it was read by the Justice Board in an ongoing trial. In fact, added Janedjri, right after the trial was closed, all parties could immediately receive a copy of the verdict and ten minutes after that everybody in the world could read the decision in the Court’s website through the internet.

”This is the Court s effort to create a transparent and open justice. [ardli]
 

Photo: Doc. MK PR/Ardli Nuryadi
Translated By Yogi Djatnika / MK

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