<p>Indonesia's anti-corruption body on Friday arrested a Supreme Court judge for his alleged involvement in a bribery scandal, one of the most high-profile magistrates to face investigation for graft.</p>.<p>The Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) deputy chief told a news conference that judge Sudrajad Dimyati had been detained after he voluntarily reported to the agency earlier in the day.</p>.<p>The KPK has detained six other suspects it believes were involved earlier this year in facilitating 2.2 billion rupiah (approximately Rs 1.18 crore) in bribes to secure a favourable ruling in an appeal by a lending cooperative facing insolvency.</p>.<p>KPK chairman Firli Bahuri had earlier publicly urged Dimyati and three others to surrender.</p>.<p>Dimyati did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the allegations.</p>.<p>Zahrul Rabain of the Supreme Court's oversight department said Dimyati would be suspended from the bench, but did not provide a timeframe.</p>.<p>The KPK carried out raids in Jakarta and Semarang this week and detained six people, Firli said, seizing nearly $148,000 (approximately Rs 1.2 crore) in cash from the home of a Supreme Court official, the majority of it in Singapore dollars, some concealed in a hollowed-out dictionary.</p>.<p>A lawyer from the lending cooperative on Friday told reporters at the KPK that he was ready "to be punished as severely as possible", according to media.</p>.<p>The KPK was established in 2002 after the fall of late President Suharto, whose rule many critics said was kleptocratic.</p>.<p>The agency has won public support for taking on powerful figures, including high-profile politicians, businesspeople, a top judge and a former minister jailed in 2021 for 12 years for taking kickbacks in the procurement of pandemic assistance packages.</p>.<p>President Joko Widodo was elected in 2014 on a platform to fight graft but some critics say the KPK's powers have been curtailed during his time in office. The government denies the agency has been hobbled. </p>
<p>Indonesia's anti-corruption body on Friday arrested a Supreme Court judge for his alleged involvement in a bribery scandal, one of the most high-profile magistrates to face investigation for graft.</p>.<p>The Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) deputy chief told a news conference that judge Sudrajad Dimyati had been detained after he voluntarily reported to the agency earlier in the day.</p>.<p>The KPK has detained six other suspects it believes were involved earlier this year in facilitating 2.2 billion rupiah (approximately Rs 1.18 crore) in bribes to secure a favourable ruling in an appeal by a lending cooperative facing insolvency.</p>.<p>KPK chairman Firli Bahuri had earlier publicly urged Dimyati and three others to surrender.</p>.<p>Dimyati did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the allegations.</p>.<p>Zahrul Rabain of the Supreme Court's oversight department said Dimyati would be suspended from the bench, but did not provide a timeframe.</p>.<p>The KPK carried out raids in Jakarta and Semarang this week and detained six people, Firli said, seizing nearly $148,000 (approximately Rs 1.2 crore) in cash from the home of a Supreme Court official, the majority of it in Singapore dollars, some concealed in a hollowed-out dictionary.</p>.<p>A lawyer from the lending cooperative on Friday told reporters at the KPK that he was ready "to be punished as severely as possible", according to media.</p>.<p>The KPK was established in 2002 after the fall of late President Suharto, whose rule many critics said was kleptocratic.</p>.<p>The agency has won public support for taking on powerful figures, including high-profile politicians, businesspeople, a top judge and a former minister jailed in 2021 for 12 years for taking kickbacks in the procurement of pandemic assistance packages.</p>.<p>President Joko Widodo was elected in 2014 on a platform to fight graft but some critics say the KPK's powers have been curtailed during his time in office. The government denies the agency has been hobbled. </p>