Jakarta (Antara Bali) - Leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will meet President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo following the arrest of their colleague, KPK Deputy Chairman Bambang Widjojanto (BW) on Friday morning.
"We will meet the president at 2 p.m. local time," Adnan Pandu Praja, also the KPK deputy chairman, stated at the office of the National Police's Crime Investigation Department (Bareskrim), here on Friday.
Praja visited the Bareskrim office to urge Deputy Police Chief Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti to release Bambang Widjojanto who was arrested while he was driving his child to school in Depok, at 7.30 am local time.
"I asked him to allow Mr BW to go back to the KPK office for the sake of good relations between the KPK and the National Police," Praja noted.
Badrodin Haiti fulfilled his request, he remarked.
"I later met the Bareskrim chief to convey the same request. Later, I met Mr BW and told him that he would return to the office before we meet the president today," he stated.
The KPK leaders will meet Jokowi to discuss about the arrest.
National Police spokesman Inspector General Ronny Sompie earlier noted that Widjojanto is not arrested but being questioned in a case concerning Kotawaringin Barat's 2010 regional legislative election in Central Kalimantan.
Sompie, here on Friday, confirmed that Bareskrim detained Widjojanto for questioning.
The Bareskrim named Widjojanto a suspect over a regional election dispute in 2010. He was charged for asking a witness to give false testimony at the Constitutional Court regarding the election dispute in Kotawaringin Barat, Central Kalimantan, when he was still a lawyer in 2010.
Ronny stated that the police received a report about the alleged false testimony only on Jan. 15, and it was backed by expert opinions and documents. (WDY)
