KPK: Asset Recovery Becomes PNBP For State Expenses

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said asset recovery efforts or asset recovery from corruptors will become non-tax state revenue (PNBP). This reason makes the institution continue to optimize these steps.

"This asset recovery is a form of the KPK's contribution to national development. Because the KPK's asset recovery will become PNBP as a source of state financing in building the nation, the state, for the welfare of all Indonesian people," Acting KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement Affairs Ali Fikri told reporters who quoted Tuesday, January 3.

In addition to the welfare of the community, asset recovery efforts are also carried out to provide a deterrent effect for the perpetrators. Ali said this step was taken because corruption is an extraordinary crime.

"With the large state losses that have been inflicted, it is also important to enforce the law on criminal acts of corruption to be an instrument of recovery for these losses," he stressed.

In fact, the KPK claims to have made efforts to recover these assets. One of them is evidenced by the increasing number of asset recovery achievements of up to IDR 80 billion or 27 percent compared to the previous year.

"The total asset recovery of the KPK in 2021 will increase if we compare it with the previous year's achievement, which was IDR 80 billion or 27 percent," said Ali.

He then detailed in 2014 the amount of looted assets deposited reached Rp107 billion; 2015 KPK handed over Rp193 billion; 2016 handed over Rp335 billion; 2017 handed over Rp342 billion.

Furthermore, in 2018 the KPK handed over Rp600 billion; 2019 handed over Rp468 billion; 2020 KPK handed over 2020 IDR 294 billion; and in 2021 Rp374 billion has been deposited by the KPK to the state.

"KPK is noted to have consistently optimized asset recovery through an approach to enforcement strategies," he said.

"Through the task of investigating, investigating, prosecuting, and executing decisions, the KPK always prioritizes optimizing the recovery of state financial losses through confiscation of assets resulting from criminal acts of corruption or asset recovery," he concluded.