INDONESIAN law-enforcement officials have snubbed a damning report released by a fact-finding team set up by the President, which concluded that there had been attempts to frame top graftbusters.

Even as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he will take a few days to study the findings, prosecutors announced they would still proceed with their case against the anti-corruption officials, and a top police officer who had been forced to step aside over the scandal was reinstated promptly.

In the wake of popular anger, after wiretaps emerged that strongly suggested evidence had been tampered to implicate the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in alleged bribery and abuse of power, Mr Yudhoyono had formed the so-called " Team 8" of experts to review the case.

This week, the national mood lifted when it recommended that the cases against two KPK officials be dropped and the perpetrators of the frame-up sanctioned.

But senior law-enforcement officials took little heed, though the findings had been telegraphed way in advance.

All night long, national detective chief Susno Duadji was smiling on TV, rebutting allegations of a role in any plot.

In a brazen move, Mr Susno - relieved temporarily of his job over the scandal - had been reinstated immediately.

Hours later, the Junior Attorney- General for special crimes, Mr Marwan Effendy, said the examination of the dossiers on one of the two KPK officials, Mr Chandra Hamzah, was nearly completed.

He said he was told by the prosecutors that the police had managed to fill holes in the dossiers, as required by the prosecutors.

"Thus, logically speaking, we have no reason but to continue to the indictment process," he said.

Mr Yudhoyono could step in but he is to take a week to consider the matter.

Beyond the specific case, Team 8 has also recommended legal reform and to "prioritise measures to combat case brokers", referring to the mafia permeating all law-enforcement agencies.

Mr Yudhoyono welcomed the report but insisted he could not immediately act on it due to an "internal process".

"As head of the country and government, what I do must be in line with the constitutional order, laws and government rules," he said, echoing his standard line that the "legal process" must be respected.

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