Indonesia parliament speaker steps down after Freeport probe, no verdict announced yet
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Jakarta
THE Indonesian parliament's speaker Setya Novanto has resigned after a probe into his meeting with a mining executive, the house ethics board said.
Lawmakers did not announce a verdict on whether Novanto was guilty of an ethics breach as he has stepped down, Surahman Hidayat, the head of the ethics board, told reporters in Jakarta on Wednesday. Mr Novanto resigned due to public opinion against him, his lawyer Razman Arif Nasution said in an interview with Indonesia's tvOne. Mr Novanto previously has said he did no wrong.
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