JAKARTA - Indonesia's corruption watchdog signed an agreement Tuesday with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to collaborate in the fight against graft, a spokesman said. Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, chairman Antasari Azhar and FBI deputy director John Pistole signed the agreement in Jakarta on training and the exchange of information and investigators, the commission's spokesman Johan Budi said.
Azhar said the two organizations were "like brothers in enacting the law, especially in the global fight against corruption," according to Detikcom news web site. "The MoU (memorandum of understanding) is not just a document. The essence is to uphold the supremacy of the law," Pistole was quoted as saying.
The KPK, which has launched several far-reaching corruption probes and won some high-profile convictions this year, has similar agreements with its counterparts in governments such as South Korea and Hong Kong. Indonesia remains one of the most corrupt countries in the world, according to independent monitor Transparency International, despite the war on graft declared in 2004 by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
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JAKARTA - Indonesia's corruption watchdog signed an agreement Tuesday with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to collaborate in the fight against graft, a spokesman said. Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, chairman Antasari Azhar and FBI deputy director John Pistole signed the agreement in Jakarta on training and the exchange of information and investigators, the commission's spokesman Johan Budi said.
