Skipping Again, ICW Asks KPK To Give Ultimatum For Forced Pick-Up Of Lukas Enembe

Papua Governor Lukas Enembe (doc. Papua Provincial Government)

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to issue an ultimatum for the forced pick-up of Papua Governor Lukas Enembe. Lukas was considered uncooperative and absent for the second time from the KPK's summons on Monday, September 26.

"ICW urges the KPK to immediately give an ultimatum message regarding the forced pick-up to Papua Governor Lukas Enembe," ICW Coordinator Kurnia Ramadhana told reporters, Tuesday, September 27.

The KPK was asked to show its firmness in investigating the alleged corruption that ensnared Lukas. Kurnia assessed that the anti-corruption commission should not actually lure the governor with the possibility of stopping the case.

"Because, as an apparatus, it is enough for the KPK to convey Luke's legal obligation to attend the examination process, not even to spit out SP3 (order to stop the investigation, ed)," he said.

Moreover, this kind of narrative has never been conveyed to other suspects. Thus, it is not appropriate for the KPK to make such a promise.

"This narrative against Luke has practically never been conveyed by the KPK to other suspects. This indicates that there is a different treatment and attitude from the KPK towards Luke," he said.

It was previously reported that Lukas Enembe was again absent at the second summons as a suspect on Monday, September 26. His lawyer, Stefanus Roy Rening, said his client was sick.

"The condition for people to give information is that they must be healthy. If they are sick, how can they give information," said Luke Enembe's attorney, Stefanus Roy Rening, to reporters in Jakarta, Monday, September 26.

Stefanus invited the KPK to come to Luke's house in Papua. He will try to protect the medical team when visiting and seeing his client's condition.

Meanwhile, Lukas' spokesman, M. Rifai Danus, said the Papuan governor had been operated on three times over the past year. He had various surgeries, including heart, pancreatic, and eye surgery.

"On this trip, he was sick, and then he recovered, the last year after he had surgery, three major operations," said Rifai.

The operation has been carried out in Singapore since 2021. Rifai claims, only doctors in the Lion Country can treat Lukas.

"The term is charged there. So this illness is then charged there, it is active again, so what is his trip called, treatment has been scheduled," said Rifai.