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Indonesian Anti-graft Watchdogs to be Ousted Over President’s Objections

Suspect test used as pretext to get rid of KPK’s most effective sleuths

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May 31, 2021
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo appears to have failed to save the jobs of 51 employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), an indication of the power of anti-sleaze forces in the country in seeking to emasculate the fabled watchdog agency.

The 75 dismissed employees, who include some of the agency’s most celebrated investigators, were order…

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