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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - More than half of the House of Representatives (DPR)`s 560 members have not reported their personal wealth as required by an existing law, a Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) official said.

KPK Deputy Chief M Jasin said here on Tuesday only 229 of the DPR`s 560 members for the period 2009-2014 had reported their personal wealth. So, 331 had not reported although the deadline for doing so had already passed, he said.

Jasin said the deadline was actually early December 2009 "so they are more than a month late."

He hoped the people`s representatives would immediately report their wealth to comply with Article 5 of Law Number 28 of 1999 on clean, corruption-, collusion- and nepotism-free government.

Based on the law state officials have to report their wealth before and after their term of office.

The law also authorizes KPK to check and examine the reports but it mentions no sanctions for those who do not submit or are late in submitting the reports.

According to KPK data, most of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) members had adhered to the regulation reaching 91.23 percent of them or 52 out of 57, followed by the Natinal Awakening Party (PKB) with 85.7 percent of its members adhering, the Gerindra Party with a 76.9 percent, and the Hanura Party with a 52.9 percent rate.

The United Development Party (PPP) with a 44.7 percent rate, the Democrat Party with a 40.5 percent rate, Golkar 29.25 percent, the National Mandate Party (PAN) with a 28.2 percent rate and the Indonesia Democratic Party-Struggle (PDIP) with just a 3.19 percent rate.

The law also requires former state officials to report their wealth but so far 424 of 550 former DPR members have not yet done so.
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Editor: Suryanto
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