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Recent Indonesian constitutional court decisions on corruption by Simon Butt

Recent Indonesian constitutional court decisions on corruption by Simon Butt. Terminology. KPK = the Corruption Eradication Commission KKN = corruption, collusion and nepotism Tipikor Court = Anti-Corruption Court. Recent headlines in the Indonesian Press…. Pengadilan Pilihan Koruptor

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Recent Indonesian constitutional court decisions on corruption by Simon Butt

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  1. Recent Indonesian constitutional court decisions on corruptionby Simon Butt

  2. Terminology • KPK = the Corruption Eradication Commission • KKN = corruption, collusion and nepotism • Tipikor Court = Anti-Corruption Court

  3. Recent headlines in the Indonesian Press… Pengadilan Pilihan Koruptor [Court of Choice for the Corrupt] Mahkamah (Anti) Anti-Korupsi [The Anti Anti-Corruption Court] Mahkamah Mafia Peradilan [Court of the Judicial Mafia]

  4. The Tipikor Case Article 24A(5) of the Constitution states that: ‘The organization, position, personnel and procedural law of the Supreme Court and the judicial bodies below it [including the Tipikor Court]are regulated by (dengan) statute’.

  5. Act which breaks the law case Article 2(1) states ‘Every person who by means of an act which breaks the law enriches themselves or another…which could damage state finances or the state economy’ faces up to life imprisonment and a fine of 1 billion rupiah [approximately US$100,000]’. The Elucidation to Article 2(1) states that acts that break the law do not have to be breaches of written laws. They can also be acts which merely ‘do not accord with the feeling of justice or social norms in the community’.

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