Kok Can Still Convict Corruption Remissions

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – a number of convict corruption case still got remission independence day, though the Ministry of Law and human rights impose tightening policy against corruptor remissions. Why is this so?

The Director General of prisons Sihabuddin replied, still granted remission because the new Government regulations regarding remission has not been so tightening.

"We are still using PP 28 used to be back," said Sihabuddin in the KPK, Kuningan, Jakarta, Wednesday (15/8/2012), after evaluating the condition of the House Arrest of East Jakarta branch of KPK.

As for the PP 28 is Sihabuddin is Number 28 PP in 2006 about the terms and the procedures for the exercise of Citizen Building. PP it mentions, the granting of remission or reduction of penalties for corruption, prisoners of terrorism, narcotics, illegal logging, and transnational crime carried out after undergoing a third concerned the criminal. The tightening of the rules in this remission PP 28 has not been tightened.

Ministry of law and HUMAN RIGHTS seeks to tighten the granting of remission through revision 28 PP. Sihabuddin said it had submitted a draft replacement for PP 28 to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

"Obviously we've done efforts tighten up but of course still back to PP 28 to be able to use the basic law for the perpetrators of the crime, corruption and narcotics, terrorist," he said.

Meanwhile, the Director of Bina and Inmates of Prisons Service Custody Ditjen Rachmat Priyo Sutarjo hope, change it immediately passed 28 PP.

"Hopefully it changes, right down to for those who are not receiving about remission justice collaborator," said Rachmat.

As reported previously, a number of prisoners languishing in the corruption case that Sukamiskin Penitentiary, West Java, got a general remission (17 August) and a special remission (Eid). They include Gaius who got remission H Tambunan independence day for three months as well as a special Eid al-Fitr remissions for a month.

Bribery case against the convicted person then judge Syarifuddin, Puguh Wirawan. The curator was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison by 2011 it gets three-month remission as well as General special Eid remission of one month.