JAKARTA. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has issued a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on the appointment of three acting leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to ensure the future of the commission’s five-member leadership and its anticorruption tasks in months to come.

Perppu No. 1/2015, signed by the President on Feb. 15, 2015, to replace Law No. 30/2002 on the KPK, has two additional chapters, stipulating the filling of three vacant seats in the commission’s leadership as well as legal and administrative requirements for KPK leaders.

The Perppu removed the maximum age of 65 for members of the commission’s leadership, which was mentioned in the 2002 KPK Law, in an apparent move to accommodate acting KPK chairman Taufiqurrahman Ruki who is 68.

Taufiqurrahman was appointed to replace KPK chairman Abraham Samad who has been named a suspect in relation to an alleged administrative violation in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in 2007, three years before he was recruited to be KPK leader.

Indriyanto Seno Adjie was appointed as acting deputy KPK chairman to replace Busyro Muqoddas whose term of office ended last year while Djohan Budi is acting deputy KPK chairman to replace Bambang Widjojanto who was named a suspect in a case surrounding fake testimony.

The President also has issued two presidential decrees on the suspension of Abraham and Bambang.

The police have been accused of criminalizing Abraham and Bambang after the commission held police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as a graft suspect on allegations that he received a huge amount of money from a businessman when he was chief of the police’s career and human resources development unit from 2004 through 2006.

Taufiqurrahman said in a discussion held by the Indonesian Law Club in Jakarta on Monday that the KPK would send Budi’s dossier to the police to be handled internally.

Editor: Hendra Gunawan