JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Corrections (Menko Kumham Imipas) Yusril Ihza Mahendra said discussions regarding the existence of a single investigative institution for corruption cases were continuously being carried out. There has been no decision regarding this discourse.
"It's not final to discuss this issue yet," Yusril told reporters at the ACLC KPK building, Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, Tuesday, December 10.
Yusril said that he represented the government in the DPR during the formation of the KPK in 2003. At that time, a special approach was needed in efforts to eradicate corruption.
"Because of that, the KPK in addition to having extraordinary powers but also the law of the event can regulate itself differently from the Criminal Procedure Code," he said.
However, 20 years later law enforcers such as the National Police and the Attorney General's Office realized that they had the same legal authority as the KPK in investigating allegations of corruption. Thus, there is a discourse of a single investigative institution even though its application must be followed by changes to the law.
One of them is by adjusting the Corruption Crime Law (UU Tipikor).
"After 20 years later a question arises if everything can also be done by the police, by the prosecutor, the KPK why we do not only unite one institution authorized to carry out investigations and prosecutions in the field of corruption," explained Yusril.
"But, of course, it must be balanced with the possibility of an update to the corruption law itself," he concluded.
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