Suspect Test Used to Boot Indonesian Graftbusters

Critically important employees to be removed

By: Ainur Rohmah

Opponents of Indonesia’s once-powerful Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have used a provision of the law governing the agency, arguably Southeast Asia’s most effective government watchdog, to engineer the removal of 75 employees including senior investigator Novel Baswedan (above), a heroic operative who was blinded in his left ey…