JAKARTA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo has given his full supports to the police's plan to set up a special squad against corruption, the president's spokesman said on Tuesday.
"The authority (the squad) is in the police. The president's only concerns were on swift and massive moves in the nation's efforts to eradicate corruptions," Indonesian presidential spokesman Johan Budi said.
The initiative to form such a squad was initially put forward by the police at a hearing in the parliament last month. The squad is expected to commence its operation early next year.
Conveying the president's advises on the planned police's anti-graft squad, Johan said it must have the capability to push forward the nation's efforts against corruption, and coordinate with the anti-corruption commission KPK and the Attorney General Office.
Inspector General Bambang Sunarwibowo, the Indonesian police chief's planning deputy, told lawmakers last month that the police anti-corruption squad was intended to help improve anti-graft institutions in investigating and interrogating corruption suspects.
The KPK had made series of arrest against senior government officials, governors and regents involved in corruption cases in the past years.
The arrests were conducted by the squad teams deployed by the KPK through covert operations to nab corrupt officials red-handed when they received bribe money from their bribers.
Indonesia charges both the bribers as well as officials who receive bribes in corruption courts.
