The KPK Council Targets The Tanak Johanis Ethics Session To Be Completed This Month

KPK Supervisory Board member Syamsuddin Haris (Photo: Wardhany T/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Supervisory Board of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is targeting the trial for alleged ethical violations of the Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Johanis Tanak to be completed this month. The final decision will be taken by the ethics panel soon. "Hopefully it can be completed this month," said KPK Supervisory Board member Syamsuddin Haris to reporters at the ACLC KPK Building, Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, Friday, August 11. Syamsuddin said information regarding Johanis' alleged communication with the Director General of Mineral and Coal at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Idris Froyoto Sihite had been heard. In fact, the ethics board has received information from experts presented by Johanis. Syamsuddin said, one of the experts presented by Johanis was Professor of Law at Padjadjaran University, Romli Atmasasmita. “ (Asked, red) what is meant by ethical violations and so on,” he said. Then the ethics panel has also examined Johanis Tanak. However, Syamsuddin closed the contents of the trial because it had entered the examination material. "The point is that it has been completed earlier and will continue on August 21 with the defense agenda of Mr. JT," he said. "After the trial of the defense agenda agenda then somehow it has not been determined, this is a verdict hearing," continued Syamsuddin. Johanis had to be tried ethically because the conversation with Idris was spread on social media. There are several screenshots uploaded to the account containing discussions about work and there are sentences 'behind the screen'. It didn't stop there, there was a conversation that turned out to be discussing a Mining Business License (IUP). Responding to this, Johanis Tanak said the conversation took place before he was appointed as a leader. He admitted that he was already friends with Idris when he was still together at the Prosecutor's Office. Johanis also admitted that he did not know that his interlocutor had become the Acting Director General of Mineral and Coal because previously he served as Head of Legal Bureau at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

"I contacted him because I was just before retirement, how many months left for me to retire. If I continue to retire, what should I do, so how can there be new activities," said Tanak when contacted by VOI, Wednesday, April 12 evening.