Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators were on Tuesday scheduled to question three former members of parliament for allegedly having received bribes.

"They are to be questioned as suspects in the alleged bribery case relating to the selection of Miranda Goeltom as Bank Indonesia (BI) senior deputy governor in 2004," KPK spokesman Johan Budi said.

The suspects are Udju Djuhaeri,Dudie Makmun Murod and Endin A.J. Soefihara, former members of the House of Representatives` (DPR) commission for financial and banking affairs.

In this case, KPK had also named former legislator Hamka Yandhu as a suspect.
Hamka was also involved in alleged bribery committed by certain former BI officials with Indonesian Banking Development Foundation (YPPI) funds.

In addition to them, KPK had also summoned some other active and former members of parliament regarding the Miranda Gultom case.

Among them are Panda Nababan, Nurdin Halid, MS. Hidayat, Achmad Hafiz Zawawi, TM. Nurlif, Baharuddin Aritonang, and Daniel Tanjung.

The alleged bribery case was revealed to the public after Agus Condro, former House member of the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle faction, confessed that he had received a bank cheque.

Agus Condro said the bank cheque totaling Rp500 million (US$1=Rp9,480) was received following the BI Senior Deputy Governor`s fit and proper test, which was won by Miranda Gultom.

Some other House members also received the same bank cheques, he said.
Members of parliament and government officials remain vulnerable to corruption practices as shown by various cases over the past few years.

Thanks to KPK`s ongoing efforts, Indonesia`s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) improves from 2.0 in 2004 to 2.8 in 2009.(*)

Editor: Aditia Maruli
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