Illegal Historian Notes, Part 4

Today is one of those days where nothing makes sense. I’ve a major shitstorm happening at home and I have tons of stuff to read before the end of the week so this must be brief. However, this episode has a lot of interesting bits, so bear with me.

The two deactivated Commissioners held a press conference yesterday to respond to the Police allegations from the previous day. Mr. Bibit Samat Riyadi explained that he was in Peru the day the Police said he took the money (Detik, 27/09/09).

If anyone also noticed, from the press conference of the Police Chief on the day before – despite an elaborate scenario of bribes and suspicious transfers of fund – Mr. Bambang Hendarso Danuri neglected to mention that none of the things he said are actually charged. In fact, Mr. Antasari Azhar – who is the most critical witness and now said he is being coerced into his testimony – is not even yet charged with his own confessions. The whole thing is taking an airport novel proportion in their big made up mess. It reads worse than fiction.

Mr. Todung Mulya Lubis from Tim Perppu Plt took the center stage today and urged the police to drop the criminalization of anti corruption efforts.

Vice President Kalla, probably responding to my twit search the other day spoke to reporters in Jakarta. He spoke to reporters after meeting with the Chief of Police and said probably the most sensible thing anyone said – basically that they should have the week to figure things out because everything is just getting messier and messier. Vice President Kalla also said that if the Police have no further evidence, they should drop all the charges and let the two Anti Corruption Commissioners back to work.
Reporters said the Police Chief arrived and left quietly with no aides in private car.

Other people in the Police HQ probably missed the memo cause later today, the Police issued new summons for the remaining two active KPK Commissioners and more officials. If things were silly yesterday tomorrow will be when things notched up a note.

Additionally, KPK also filed complaints to the National Police Committee (Kompolnas) against officials involved in the charges.

Professor Mahfud from Constitutional Court also spoke to reporters again and basically told them it is in his capacity as the chief of the country’s highest court, if it was up to him then he would have the Chief of Police fired (Tempo 29/09/09).

Kompas reports the President is having problems finding suitable Commissioners due this inexplicable behavior from the Police.

Komisi XI from DPR came out in the morning saying that they have received the BPK report on Century and DPR will have a public statement on tomorrow (Tuesday, 29/09/09).

Then they came out a few hours later saying that they wouldn’t be doing that because the audit results are covered by banking secrecy regulations etc.

Dradjad Wibowo (PAN) mentioned a 2 trillion IDR in SUN (gov’t bond) that probably shouldn’t be there. The rest is still unclear though Bank Indonesia insisted they’re being cooperative and provided the audit with all the necessary information. We’ll wait.