The PDIP faction has not arrived at a decision whether it accepts the nomination of Commr. Gen. Badrotin Haiti or not.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) in the House of Representatives (DPR) will ask President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to clarify why he canceled Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawans inauguration as National Police (Polri) chief.

"We will ask President Jokowi to clarify why Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan who had passed a fit-and-proper test of the DPR was not inaugurated," Secretary of the PDIP faction Bambang Wuryanto said here on Monday.

The President must clarify his decision because there is a legal procedure to inaugurate a Polri chief, he added.

According to him, the DPR had exercised its constitutional mandate to conduct a fit-and-proper test on Polri chief candidate Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, but the President later replaced him with other candidate.

"If he clarifies, it will become clear because all procedures have a mechanism. To govern a state, one cannot do what s/he likes," he noted.

Bambang remarked that the PDIP faction did not object to the President nominating Commr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti to replace Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, but there was a problem and that had not been solved.

The problem concerned a presidential letter asking the DPR to process the nomination of Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, but the President later cancelled his inauguration. The process remains incomplete because there has been no clarification from the President, he pointed out.

"The President has not clarified why the Polri chief candidate was formally replaced," he observed.

The PDIP faction has not arrived at a decision whether it accepts the nomination of Commr. Gen. Badrotin Haiti or not, he said, adding the President still has to explain the legal mechanism.

President Jokowi had cancelled the inauguration of Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as Polri chief and named interim police chief Commr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti as the new candidate for the post.

Just a day before his candidacy was scheduled to be scrutinized by parliament, the Corruption Eradication Commission named Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a suspect for his alleged involvement in suspicious transactions.

Even though he was named a suspect, parliament had approved his candidacy.(*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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