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The decision of the former KPK leader Busyro Muqoddas become a lawyer Bambang Trihatmodjo highlighted by researchers from the Center for Anti-Corruption Studies (Pukat) UGM, Zainur Rohman. Even so, Busyro did not bother because he was carrying out his duties as an advocate.
“It doesn’t matter, because professional ethics demands that. That is the code of ethics for advocates equity before the law. So the equality of all parties before the law, “said Busyro when contacted by reporters, Saturday (26/9/2020).
“I am not defending the corruption case because it is questionable. But it is a risk,” said the Head of PP Muhammadiyah on Law and Human Rights.
So far, the Cendana family has often been linked with corruption cases. So, becoming Bambang’s lawyer will have an impact on Busyro’s image, who has been actively advocating anti-corruption. Busyro also emphasized that the case in which Bambang Trihatmodjo’s lawsuit against the Minister of Finance was not related to corruption. It’s an administrative case.
“The case is the case of bans. His (Bambang) passport was revoked by the government, cq the Minister of Finance,” he explained.
As a former leader of an anti-graft agency, Busyro emphasized that he would never defend a person accused of corruption. Although legally the principle of presumption of innocence applies.
“So in a corruption case I can’t possibly defend myself, even though in professional ethics, the person accused of being corrupt must apply the presumption of innocence. So even if there is an advocate defending it, it should not be sued,” he said.
Previous, Bambang Trihatmodjo sued the Indonesian Minister of Finance to the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN). The son of the second president of the Republic of Indonesia, Soeharto, was banned from abroad because of state receivables related to the 1997 SEA Games.
The lawsuit was published on the Jakarta PTUN website, Thursday (17/9). The case pocketed number 179 / G / 2020 / PTUN.JKT, and was registered last Tuesday (15/9).
The defendant in Bambang’s lawsuit is the Indonesian Minister of Finance. Bambang asked the Minister of Finance’s decision which made it banned to be canceled. Busyro’s decision to become Bambang Trihatmodjo’s team of lawyers also drew criticism from Zainur Rohman, a researcher at the Center for Anti-Corruption Studies at Gadjah Mada University (Pukat UGM).
Zainur said Busyro’s decision to become a lawyer for the Cendana family was Busyro’s choice. However, according to him, it is not good for the former leader of an anti-corruption agency to become a lawyer for corruption cases.
“It is not good for the former KPK leadership to become a lawyer for a corruption case, if the corruption case is not intended to expose the corruption case,” explained Zainur, Friday (25/9) yesterday.
Zainur did not deny that the Cendana family had often been linked to corruption issues. Even so, he reminded that his duty as a lawyer for the Cendana family would have an impact on Busyro’s image.
“Yes, it is an image risk. A Busyro Muqoddas, a former KPK leader who is the attorney of the Cendana family, we know for himself that the Cendana family in the past had allegations of corruption cases which have not yet been completed,” he said.
“For example, like former President Soeharto. The deceased had a corruption case which until the end of his life was not completed,” he continued.
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