Jakarta. Watchdog Indonesia Corruption Watch, or ICW, urged newly-inaugurated National Police's Detective Chief Comr. Gen. Ari Dono Sukamto to seriously handle seven big graft cases to boost the police's role in eradicating corruption.

ICW researcher Febri Hendri said the performance of corruption directorate of National Police's Criminal Investigation Unit, or better known as Bareskrim, improved in the latest two year, but there are still 20 corruption cases whose investigations still dragged on.

The ICW called on Ari Dono — who previously served as Bareskrim deputy chief — to seriously handle corruption cases for prosecution at the court, singling out seven high profile cases.

Ari pointed to a Health Ministry case involving several high-ranking officials and State-Owned Enterprises which caused around Rp 300 billion in state losses via the bird flu vaccination program, the Education Ministry teacher development program graft case which saw general directorate secretary Giri Suryatmana named a suspect and caused Rp 145 billion state losses and the Pertamina Foundation corporate social responsibility graft case which embroiled Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chair candidate Nina Nurlina.

Other cases include the controversial procurement of uninterruptible power supplies, printers and scanners involving Jakarta city officials and councilors, the Cibungung-Tanjung Rasa double train track rail project which has named three suspects since 2014, an embezzlement and money laundering case stemming from Trans-Pacific Petrochemical Indotama worth an estimated Rp 35 billion and involving former chief of the country's upstream oil and gas regulator SKK Migas Raden Priyono and state-owned port operator Pelindo II graft case regarding MCC procurements.

“Those cases have been National Police's responsibility to the public to finish completely and transparently. Do not let these cases be a stumbling for the institution for further efforts to eradicate corruption,” Febri said in Jakarta on Wednesday (01/06).

According to ICW, Bareskrim's corruption directorate probed 13 cases in 2014 and 21 others in 2015, lower than its target of 26 cases each year.

However, the directorate managed to handover 47 corruption cases for trials with the court during the two years, Febri said.

Comr. Gen. Ari Dono was sworn in as new Bareskrim chief on Tuesday, replacing Comr. Gen. Anang Iskandar who is retiring from the force.