MAKI Asks Firli Bahuri Not To Participate In IDI Check The Condition Of Lukas Enembe In Jayapura

Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri. (Antaranews)a

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri was asked not to join the independent team of the Executive Board of the Indonesian Doctors Association (PB IDI) to Jayapura to examine Papua Governor Lukas Enembe. This step was considered unethical by the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI).

"It is not very good for the KPK chairman to meet the corruption suspect," MAKI Coordinator Boyamin Saiman told reporters, Friday, October 20.

Firli is considered to be violating Article 36 of the KPK Law if he participates in examining Lukas. Boyamin said the meeting could lead to a crime.

"KPK leaders are prohibited from meeting suspects and there is a threat of five years imprisonment," he quoted the article as saying.

Boyamin said that it was enough for the medical team from PB IDI and the KPK to examine Lukas. Investigators are also welcome to participate.

"That's right (sufficient for the medical team and investigators, ed)," he said.

Previously, the KPK said that it would soon form a team that would be dispatched to Jayapura, Papua to check the condition of Lukas Enembe. The team will be filled by an independent team of doctors.

Meanwhile, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe's attorney, Roy Rening, confirmed that IDI's independent team would examine his client in Jayapura. He even claimed that KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri would go there.

Roy received information that Firli would go to Jayapura from the Director of KPK Enforcement Asep Guntur Rahayu. However, it was not specified when the team would leave.

For information, Lukas has been named a suspect by the KPK. However, the case that ensnared him has not been detailed.

Lukas will actually be questioned on Monday, September 26 at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta. However, the examination was failed because Lukas admitted he was sick and could not provide information.

Furthermore, the KPK will return to make summons that have not been informed for sure. Lukas was asked to cooperate in fulfilling the training of KPK investigators because his statement was needed to make clear the allegations of corruption that occurred.