Row over legislator's inauguration as Indonesia's anti-graft agency hands minister travel ban

[Facilitator's note: Thank you to Adhi Setyo Tamtomo, International Cooperation Specialist, Corruption Eradication Commission, Indonesia, for sharing this information.]

Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has waded into a row over whether Jero Wacik’s inauguration as a legislator should be permitted to proceed, a day after the energy and mineral resources minister was named a graft suspect by anti-corruption investigators. “It doesn’t feel ethical for him to be inaugurated — let alone to say his oath — while his status is a suspect. It’s not something that is nice to listen to,” Johan Budi, a spokesman for the commission known as the KPK, said.

Read the story by Rizky Amelia in The Jakarta Globe.

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