FILE PHOTO: Novel Baswedan, senior investigator of Indonesia's anti-graft agency who had acid flung in his face in 2017, smiles during an interview at Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Bespectacled and blinded in one eye after a 2017 acid attack, Indonesia's most well-known anti-corruption investigator, Novel Baswedan, said his sacking last month could sound the death knell for the country's popular anti-graft body (KPK).
"As part of the ongoing weakening of the KPK," Novel told Reuters via Zoom, "I'm worried this will be the final phase."
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