JAKARTA, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – A prominent Indonesian corruption
investigator had acid thrown in his face by motorbike-riding assailants Tuesday in an attack activists believe is linked to a graft case that has implicated senior politicians.
Novel Baswedan, a member of the official Corruption Eradication
Commission (KPK), was being treated in hospital after the attack which happened in Jakarta as he walked home in the early hours.
“It is a brutal act, I strongly condemn it,” said President Joko Widodo, urging the police to track down the assailants.
Presidential spokesman Johan Budi, who visited Baswedan in hospital, gave details of the attack, telling AFP the investigator had injuries on his forehead and blurred vision in his left eye.