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Jokowi calls for calm after arrest of country's top graft buster

Published Fri, Jan 23, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo urged the national police and the country's most powerful anti-graft agency to avoid "friction" after the arrest of a prominent corruption fighter sparked an outcry on Friday.

The shock arrest of Bambang Widjojanto, deputy chief at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), comes about a week after the agency accused a high-ranking police general of corruption, postponing his appointment as the country's new police chief.

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