Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono`s instruction on the settlement of tax fraud defendant Gayus Tambunan`s case is proof of the government`s seriousness in solving it, a ruling party legislator said.

"The President`s instruction means the police must dispose of the Guyus case quickly and correctly," Jafar Hafsah, chairman of the Democrat Party (PD) faction in the House of Representatives (DPR), said here Tuesday.

House Deputy Speaker Taufik Kurniawan also said the President`s instruction on the Gayus case was an indication of the government`s seriousness in bringing it to a final solution.

"We hope the law enforcing agencies will respond to the President`s instruction because he means business," Taufik said.

What now needed to be monitored, he said, was the seriousness of the law enforcing agencies in carrying out the President`s instruction within the shortest possible time.

"We need now wait how the state`s law enforcing agencies respond to the presidential instruction, This is something they must do without fail," said Taufik who is also secretary general of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

The President on Monday (Jan 17) issued a 12-point instruction on the Gayus case.
The first, addressed to the police, the attorney general`s office and the finance ministry, obligates them to settle the Gayus case by involving the Corruption Eradicaton Commission (KPK) and the Financial Assets and Transactions Monitoring Committee (PPATK), encourage the KPK to handle cases untouched by the police, audit the performance of government agencies connected with the Gayus case, enforce the law fairly and indiscriminately and application of the reverse burden of proof principle.

Other points of the presidential instruction called for the recovery of embezzled state assets or money, transfer or discharge of those quilty of corruption, revamping of corrupt institutions, organizations or officials, revision of work systems, periodic reports on settlement of the Gayus case, clarifying the Gayus case to the public, assigning Vice President Boediono and the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force to oversee the implementation of the presidential instruction. (*)

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