Chairmann of Team 8 Adnan Buyung Nasution (left) shakes hand with the coordinator of the Commision for Missing persons and victims of Violence (KONTRAS) Usman Hamid (right). (ANTARA/Widodo S. Jusuf)

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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - State officials whose image in society has become negative should immediately resign, as stipulated in a 2001 decree of the People`s Consultative Assembly (MPR), a civil rights advocacy group says.

Usman Hamid, coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), was referring to a number of law enforcement and other state officials whose shady phone conversations with businessman Anggodo Widjojo
became known to the public when a recording of wire-taps on their talks was replayed in a Constitutional Court session not long ago.

The communications suggested the existence of a plot to frame two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders.

"The MPR decree says any state official who has developed a negative image among the public shall resign from his or her position," Usman said.

He said MPR Decree No VI of 2001 laid down rules to maintain the supremacy of ethics and morality in the nation`s life whereby officials who had issued policies that were against the law and people`s justice were required to step down from their posts.

Therefore, Usman said, the state officials caught communicating with businessmen Anggodo Widjojo in a plot to remove two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chiefs must be asked to resign as their actions had betrayed the law.

Usman also expressed dismay about the fact that law enforcing agencies had until now not detained Anggodo Widjojo, the plot`s mastermind.

The credibility of Indonesian law enforcement had dropped drastically and this was very harmful to Indonesia`s image in the world, he said.

"We will become an embarassment to the world," he said.

Meanwhile, People`s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Vice Chairman Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said the resignation of officials with a negative image would be in line with MPR Decree No VI of 2001.

"The decree requires all state officials and politicians to be honest, fair, ready to serve the people and ready to resign from his or her post whenever he or she proves to have made a mistake in the performance of his or her duties," Lukman said. (*)

Editor: B Kunto Wibisono
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