Lukas has cited poor health for his failure to appear for multiple summonses, prompting KPK chairman Firly Bahuri, along with several investigators and doctors, to question Lukas in person in Papua in November. KPK spokesperson Ali Fikri said that now that Lukas had been arrested, he would undergo questioning in Jakarta. “What is certain is that the next step to be carried out [for Lukas] is an examination,” Ali said during a televised interview with Kompas on Tuesday, adding that the KPK would be in charge of the moves that followed.
Unrest Lukas’ arrest prompted a skirmish at the Kotaraja detention center between local police and a group thought to consist of the governor’s supporters. The crowd threw stones and fired arrows at the police, according to the police account, prompting authorities to fire four warning shots to disperse the crowd. https://makassar.kompas.com/read/2023/01/10/134346678/lukas-enembe-ditangkap-kpk-massa-serang-mako-brimob-kotaraja-pakai-batu-dan
It was not the first time Lukas’ supporters had taken to the streets in protest. Thousands rallied in September against the graft investigation and demanded its termination while accusing the KPK of persecuting the governor for political reasons. Lukas, formerly a Democratic party politician, has been governor of Papua since 2013. In 2017, he was named a suspect in a separate graft case over the alleged misuse of scholarship funds for the 2016 fiscal year.
Bribery case The KPK named Lukas a graft suspect in September for allegedly accepting a bribe in relation to the provincial administration’s goods and services procurement. The state-run Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) also cited a series of suspicious transactions related to the administration.
Indonesian anti-curruption authorities have arrested Papua Governor Lukas Enembe on allegations of bribery.
The Jakarta Globe called the arrest by the Corruption Eradication Commission in a restaurant in the provincial capital Jayapura yesterday as “dramatic” saying it came four months after he had been named a suspect.
The arrest led to his supporters attacking a police Mobile Brigade Unit where he was being held prior to being flown to Jakarta on a chartered flight.
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The newspaper said the two-term governor is accused of taking billions of rupiah in bribes from businessmen but has resisted arrest since the commission named him a suspect in September.
Indonesia’s Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre alleged Enembe made payments, amounting to US$39 million dollars, to overseas casinos.
Indonesia’s Chief Security Minister Mohammad Mahfud said in October that the central government had channelled billions of dollars in what was dubbed “autonomy funding” to Papua since 2001, with about half of that amount disbursed during Enembe’s term.
He claimed “nothing happened: the people remain poor and the officials continue their lavish lifestyle”.
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"The latest information is that the overall situation is conducive," head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo stated.
Enembe was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission in Jayapura and brought to Jakarta soon thereafter.
Prasetyo said that the National Police had participated in monitoring the process of arrest by investigators from the commission.
"The National Police is committed to backing up the Commission in every law enforcement against criminal acts of corruption," he stated.
The Commission had named Enembe and Director of PT Tabi Bangun Papua (TBP) Rijatono Lakka (RL) as suspects in cases of alleged bribery and gratuities related to infrastructure development projects in Papua Province.
Lakka allegedly handed over Rp1 billion to Enembe after being selected to run three infrastructure projects at the Papua Provincial Government, those being the multi-year project of the Entrop-Hamadi road improvement valued at Rp14.8 billion, multi-year project of early childhood education supporting facilities and infrastructure rehabilitation worth Rp13.3 billion, and the multi-year project of Air Force outdoor shooting venues environmental management, with a value of Rp12.9 billion.
The Commission also suspects that Enembe received other gratuities amounting to billions of rupiah during his position as governor. Currently, the Corruption Eradication Committee is investigating further into the case.
For investigation purposes, the team has detained Lakka for 20 days, from January 5, 2023, to January 24, 2023, at the Corruption Eradication Commission Detention Center in Jakarta.
Enembe, as receiver of the gratuity, is suspected of having violated Article 12, letter a or b or Article 11 and Article 12B of Law Number 31 of 1999 on eradication corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001.
Moreover, Lakka, as the giver, is suspected of violating Article 5, paragraph (1) or Article 5, paragraph (2) and Article 13 of Law Number 31 of 1999 on corruption eradication as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001.
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JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledged on Wednesday (Jan 11) a series of incidents amounting to "gross human rights violations" had taken place in his country's past, including the bloodshed and arrests that took place in 1965 and 1966.
In one of the darkest periods of Indonesia's history, some historians and activists have estimated at least 500,000 people were killed in violence that started in late 1965 after then-general Suharto and the military took power following an abortive communist coup. A million or more people were jailed, suspected of being communists.
"With a clear, genuine mind and conscience, I as a head of state acknowledge that there were gross human rights violations that did happen in many events," he said.
"And I strongly regret that those violations occurred."
The president, commonly known as Jokowi, cited 11 other incidents, spanning a period between 1965 and 2003 prior to his tenure as leader, including the shooting dead and abduction of students during protests against Suharto's three-decade rule in the late 1990s.
Students leading the protests were targeted and there were also many victims during this period from the Chinese community, a minority in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country and sometimes resented for their perceived wealth.
Jokowi said that the government would seek to restore the rights of victims "fairly and wisely without negating judicial resolving", though did not specify how.
The president also cited human rights violations in the restive region of Papua, noting his acknowledgment came after reading the results received from a team he formed in 2022 to investigate these violations.
Some activists remained sceptical and said acknowledgment and expression of regret were not sufficient without cases being legally resolved in court and perpetrators tried, noting cases had often been thrown out by the Attorney General's Office, which is tasked with investigating rights violations.
Any expression of regret must also include a reaffirmation that "serious crimes of the past need to be resolved rightly and justly through judicial means," said Usman Hamid of Amnesty International, adding victims needed to get reparation.
Previous presidents have also acknowledged such violations. Late President Abdurrahman Wahid apologised for the 1965 bloodshed, while President BJ Habibie formed a team to investigate the violence in 1998.
Police Chief of Mountain Bintang, AKBP Moh. Dafi Bastomi, when confirmed justifying the existence of the event. He said the burning of Dukcapil office took place on Wednesday (11/1/2023) around 01.15 WIT accompanied by the sound of gunshots five times.
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