"The first thing is that the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to eradicate the judicial mafia, corruptors and their networks so that they know how and when to act before they are named suspects," Deputy Chairman of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) Laode Ida said here on Thursday.
Laode Ida was of the view the case involving Nazaruddin (former Democrat Party treasurer) was only one among numerous budget mafia cases most of which had remained undetected or undisclosed.
"There is an impression that they are even taken as friends and financiers of individual state officials," he said.
The second thing why in the current regime multiple failures have happened (in the legal enforcement and eradication of various mafia, particularly with regard to the escape of Nazaruddin) concernd with the attitude of his political party`s elite.
"In this case, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his capacity as PD chief patron has created the impression that he has allowed his party to become the home of this country`s liars and mafia," he said.
He expressed regret that the big party which was the main supporter of the government or the current regime turned out to be filled with that kind of elite.
"The public in this nation already understand that many politicians who have strong indications of involvement in corruption and budget mafia are not taken to court or examined," he said.
The third reason, he said, the multiple failures had happened because Yudhoyono had let the apparatuses to be careless and fooled by Nazaruddin.
"There is a strong suspicion that Nazaruddin has escaped to Singapore by design. After all, his colleagues in the party have met him in the neighboring country when an official team came there. But why all of a sudden he is declared to have disappeared and no one knows his whereabouts," he said.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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