By Xinhua,
Jakarta : The House of Representatives (DPR)of Indonesia is to give the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)all the liberty it needs to investigate legislators involved in corruption, House Speaker Agung Laksono said on Saturday.
“We will give the KPK our full cooperation, and will not protect House members from being investigated by the KPK,” Antara news agency quoted the House leader as saying in Bali.
Laksono said he had met with the leaders of the House factions and asked them to let the KPK investigate any of their members suspected of corruption.
“We have met with each of the House factions and asked them to be willing to let KPK go ahead with its investigations with due observance of the principle of presumption of innocence,” he said.
The arrests of a number of legislators as suspects in bribery and corruption cases over the past few months should serve as a lesson to the rest of the House members, he said.
But Laksono also expressed the hope that the KPK would fight corruption indiscriminately and not only target legislative bodies while ignoring corruption in other state institutions.