Performance Not Effective, Corruption Eradication Commission Judged Not Needed

JAKARTA - The performance of the Supervisory Board of the Corruption Eradication Commission (Dewas KPK) in the first semester of 2020 is considered ineffective. Thus, their existence is questioned.

"This also proves that the existence of this institution is not really needed at the KPK," said Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Kurnia Ramadhana as quoted by Antara, Thursday, August 6.

ICW, he said, provided four records about the performance of the KPK Dewas. First, legal products are not on target. He said as stated in Article 37 B of Law Number 19 of 2019 that one of the duties of the Supervisory Board is to compile and establish a code of ethics for KPK leaders and employees.

"The fact is that Dewas only made one code of ethics that covers the subject of KPK leaders and employees. Of course this is important to criticize together because the greatest potential for 'abuse of power' is at the leadership level. For this reason, Dewas should differentiate between the two codes of ethics," he said.

Second, neglect to look at the alleged violation of the code of ethics of KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri. Kurnia said that at the end of January it was discovered that one of the KPK investigators who was tasked with handling the interim bribery case, member of the DPR RI, Kompol Rossa Purbo Bekti, was forcibly returned by the KPK Chair.

In fact, he said, the person concerned had not been included in the minimum deadline for working at the KPK and the process of repatriation was also without approval from the head of the agency of origin or the Chief of Police.

"Even Kompol Rossa himself was also known to have never violated ethics while working at the KPK. Of course this incident should have been used as a trigger for Dewas to process allegations of code of ethics violations committed by the Chairman of the KPK," said Kurnia.

Third, allow the maze of information regarding the granting of permission to search. According to him, the handling of cases involving former legislative candidates from PDIP Harun Masiku and former KPU commissioner Wahyu Setiawan.

Fourth, it is slow to process the alleged violation of the code of ethics of KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri regarding the use of luxury helicopters while traveling in South Sumatra.

In plain view, said Kurnia, Firli's action was certain to violate the code of ethics because it showed a hedonistic lifestyle.

"Until now, Dewas has not made a decision regarding the alleged violation," he said.

He also said that based on these arguments, it could be said that the performance of the KPK Dewas was no better than the Deputy for Internal Supervision of the KPK in the era of the old KPK Law.

"Because, reflecting on previous experience, the deputy was proven to have imposed sanctions on two KPK leaders, namely Abraham Samad and Saut Situmorang. However, until now, Dewas, amid various alleged violations of the KPK chairman's code of ethics, had not imposed sanctions on him. "said Kurnia.