Refleksi : Sekalipun diam dan tenang orangnya, tetapi agaknya SBY adalah jago pemain bawah meja, lihat saja mengapa SBY bungkam seribu bahasa terhadap kasus hasil korupsi boss Soeharto yang disimpan di berbagai pelosok dunia. Membungkam bisa berarti membela, menyetujui korupsi bossnya, sekalipun hiruk pikuk menghajar korupsi, tetapi bukan koruptor kelas ikan paus melainkan kelas ikan teri, jadi anti korupsinya tebang pilih.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/president-swept-up-in-indonesian-corruption-scandal-20091120-iqus.html President swept up in Indonesian corruption scandal TOM ALLARD HERALD CORRESPONDENT November 21, 2009 Change on the cards ... university students stage an anti-corruption rally in Jakarta. Photo: AFP JAKARTA: It is an allegation that has spread like wildfire through Jakarta's elites and is now being openly canvassed in the press. Was the election campaign of Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono - fought and won on his credentials as an anti-graft campaigner - financed by elite donors who were bailed out in dubious circumstances with public funds? At the heart of the corruption scandal sweeping the country is the $760 million rescue of Bank Century last year, a small bank dominated by shareholders and depositors from some of Indonesia's richest families. An investigation by the independent anti-corruption watchdog, the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, into what appeared to be a case of irregular prudential regulation seemed simple enough. Its early findings implicating senior police in kickbacks in exchange for ensuring the funds went to wealthy beneficiaries were alarming, but not spectacular by Indonesian graft standards. What has opened a pandora's box for the President was the extraordinary police effort to shut down the KPK investigation - an apparently brazen conspiracy to imprison the body's leadership on trumped-up charges of bribery and murder. It has laid bare the deep-seated corruption in the law-enforcement establishment but, in light of the President's seeming indifference to the assault on the KPK, has raised a question that has yet to be answered: what are they trying to hide? Beyond the prominent figures who had parked their money in Bank Century, the institution's bail-out was odd for a number of reasons. First, the bank's collapse was due to the embezzlement of funds, rather than an exposure to the ructions in world financial markets. Moreover, the bank was so small that it posed no risk of triggering systemic failure across the country's financial system. The size of the bail-out also grew five times beyond that authorised by parliament, and went direct to select shareholders and depositors, rather than re-capitalising the bank so it could begin trading again. Among those who were given the money were Hartati Murdaya, the treasurer of the Democrat Party re-election campaign, and Budi Sampoerna, another supporter of the President. As the KPK investigation gathered pace, there was a remarkable development. The chairman of the KPK, Antasari Azhar, was arrested and accused of murdering a Jakarta businessman, because the two men were infatuated with the same female golf caddy. Mr Antasari's case remains before the courts, but the key prosecution witness has already changed his story and claimed he was told to fabricate evidence. It then emerged that the KPK had uncovered evidence that senior police had been orchestrating the siphoning of bail-out money for Bank Century in exchange for large bribes. Chief among their suspects was its chief detective, Susno Duadji. Mr Susno, aware his calls were being intercepted by the KPK, made a comment that came to define the scandal: ''How dare a gecko [ KPK] challenge a crocodile [police and prosecutors].'' The retaliation of the crocodile was swift. Two KPK deputy chairmen - Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto - were soon charged by the police with abuse of power and soliciting bribes and put in prison. They claimed they were set up, and the evidence later emerged to back their assertion. As television cameras rolled, more than four hours of KPK wiretaps were played in a Jakarta court earlier this month. Millions of transfixed viewers heard various senior police and prosecutors talking about framing the two KPK deputies, even suggesting that Mr Chandra, following his imprisonment, could be murdered. At one point in the recordings, an unidentified woman can be heard saying Dr Yudhoyono supported the plot. As evidence goes, it was no smoking gun. And the President has vehemently denied the claim. On Thursday his Justice Minister, Patrialis Akbar, said: ''Rumours saying that funds had flowed to SBY and his presidential election campaign team are slander.'' The director of the Anti-Corruption Assessment Centre at the Gajah Mada University, Zainal Arifin Mochtar, said the jury would remain out until a parliamentary investigation was completed. ''It is premature to say now that the President is involved directly and indirectly. But his comments and actions do not help him,'' Dr Zainal said. Dr Yudhoyono's support for the KPK has been, at best, equivocal. He complained that its power must ''not go unchecked''. Police and prosecutors implicated in tapes have also been returned to their positions. His Democrat Party has fiercely resisted a parliamentary inquiry into the Bank Century bail-out, while Dr Yudhoyono's policy to combat a ''judicial mafia'' of corrupt police, prosecutors and judges has so far amounted to introducing a ''complaints box'' for the public. Much will depend on his response, due on Monday, to the recommendation of an independent taskforce known as the Team of Eight. It wants the case against the two KPK deputies dropped, corrupt police and prosecutors removed and the leadership of the police and attorney-general's department reshuffled. It also wants the Bank Century bail-out examined. ''The President said he would curb this judicial mafia,'' said Frenky Simanjuntak of Transparency International, an anti-corruption non-government organisation. If he does not, thundered the Jakarta Post this week, he ''will be staring his own political suicide in the face''. Ads by Google [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
