Word: hamzah
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...July, after chief police detective Susno Duadji was caught speaking to a corruption suspect on a KPK phone tap, the police have been trying to discredit the group. On Oct. 29, two KPK commissioners, Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, were arrested on charges of abuse of authority and taking bribes. Several days later, with public demand growing for an investigation, SBY established a special team of academics, lawyers and a former police official to "verify the facts" surrounding the case...
...release last week of the detained KPK members reflects a small step forward in the country's effort to fight widespread graft in Indonesia, but also the long struggle ahead. The police freed Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, both currently nonactive members of the KPK, after more wiretapped recordings were aired on national TV that implicated members of the police and prosecutors in an alleged attempt to frame the men. "So far it is the credibility and image of the police and the attorney general's office that have taken the biggest hit," says Danang Widojoko, coordinator...
Succession plots are brewing inside Jordan's Hashemite dynasty. Reversing a deathbed wish of the late King Hussein, King Abdullah II stunned his subjects last week by summoning Crown Prince Hamzah - his half brother - from a holiday and abruptly sacking him as heir to the throne. "It was a complete surprise," said Mustafa Hamarneh, a prominent Jordanian political analyst...
...Hamzah, eldest son of the late King Hussein and American-born Queen Noor, nearly succeeded Hussein in 1999 when the monarch, dying of cancer, dismissed his brother, longtime Crown Prince Hassan. So close was Hamzah to his father that even Abdullah, then a 36-year-old military officer, assumed that his younger half brother, then 18, would get the royal nod. But roughly two weeks before his death, Hussein opted for Abdullah's maturity and experience - but made it clear that he should in turn make Hamzah his crown prince and "critical partner." Abdullah acceded, but never truly accepted Hamzah...
...Jordan's royals have publicly united around the latest switch, tongues are still wagging about this new burst of palace infighting. In his dismissal letter, Abdullah said he had decided to "free" the Sandhurst graduate of his "symbolic" post in order to let him undertake unspecified responsibilities and missions. Hamzah's terse reply quoted a Koranic verse, saying simply, "Obey ... those charged with authority...