REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, YOGYAKARTA -- Gadjah Mada University's Anti-corruption Study Center (Pukat) researcher Zainal Arifin Mochtar believes there is nothing wrong if the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) rejected a summon by a Special Committee of the House of Representatives (DPR).

"If since the beginning, the process was considered weird, and the anti-graft agency decided to not attend the summon by the Special Committee, it is okay," he remarked here, Tuesday.

The establishment of the Special Committee of Inquiry on the KPK has been problematic since the beginning.

An inquiry could only be conducted on the president and his staff as well as on non-ministerial institutions but not on an independent institution, such as the KPK.

If the Parliament wanted to clarify something with the KPK, they could hold a hearing, he said.

However, if the KPK decided to meet the summon by the House, the agency should be selective in giving relevant information to the House.

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Information on court documents should be withheld and only revealed through a pro-justice process, he noted.

The motion initiated by several lawmakers, particularly from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, Golkar, and the National Democrats parties, to exercise inquiry rights on the KPK, has received criticism from various parties, particularly from legal experts.

The Association of Alumni of the Faculty of Law of the University of Indonesia (ILUNI FH UI) has noted that the planned inquiry was a hindrance to justice and can endanger the momentum to eradicate corruption.

If the inquiry was conducted, it could be viewed as an intervention in the legal enforcement process by the DPR and could impinge on the independence of the KPK, ILUNI FH UI said in a statement signed by its chairman, Ahmad Fikri Assegaf, on May 3.

The inquiry motion came after the KPK rejected an earlier request by the Law Commission of the DPR to hand over a recorded copy of the dossiers of lawmaker Miryam S. Haryani, who has been implicated in a Rp5.9 trillion scandal over the project involving the procurement of electronic identity cards.

Based on dossiers read by the KPK prosecutor in a court session earlier, more than 50 lawmakers, government officials, and businessmen, were allegedly implicated in the scandal.

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