The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of Indonesia hopes to recover a total of one trillion rupiah (108 million U.S. dollars) worth of state assets from resolved corruption cases by year end, a spokesman said.

Until now, the amount of recovered state property had reached 455 billion rupiah (49.5 million U.S. dollars) and all of it had been transferred to the state treasury immediately to prevent it from generating interest, Antara news agency on Saturday quoted KPK Vice Chairman (for prevention) M Yasin as saying.

Speaking at a public discussion at the parliament building on Friday, Yasin said the commission's budget for 2008 was 250 billion rupiah. "This amount is commensurate with our task to retrieve stolen state assets," he said.

The KPK was always working with meticulous care, professionally, indiscriminately and without seeking popularity, Yasin said.

Asked whether it could happen that KPK officers took personal advantage from or misused their authority, Yasin said KPK personnel were bound by a clearly defined code of ethics. Any kind of gifts they had received, especially from suspects, had to be reported to superiors.

He said the House of Representatives (DPR) should also have such a code of ethics. "It would be very good for its image, if the House implements such rules consistently," he added.

Since the Indonesian government launched the corruption eradication program four years ago when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took over powers, dozens of officials and members of the parliament have been arrested on the charge of corruption cases.