JAKARTA — A former Indonesian government minister has been arrested by the country's anti-corruption commission, an official said on Friday (Oct 13), after a series of accusations including pocketing more than US$800,000 (S$1.1 million) in public funds.
Graft remains rampant in the archipelago nation, which ranked 110th out of 180 countries in Transparency International's latest corruption perception index.
He was detained on Thursday, with local media showing him being taken handcuffed into the commission's offices in the capital Jakarta. Mr Fikri said Mr Limpo missed the commission's summons on Wednesday for questioning, citing family reasons. Mr Limpo's lawyer Febri Diansyah said in a statement that the KPK had sent two documents that were"very different in nature" on Wednesday — an arrest warrant and a letter summoning him to its offices on Friday for questioning.