Mahfud's Strict Warning To Civil Servants, Government Officials And State Officials: Don't Eat People's Money

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD asked the state civil apparatus (ASN), government officials and state officials to work well and not eat people's money.

"If we commit crimes, eat state money and public money, one day it will not be safe, today it may be safe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow you are not safe. Before you retire you are safe, maybe after retirement you will be chased by people," Mahfud said in a press release. , reported by Antara, Sunday, March 13.

Mahfud in the event of the Proclamation of Illegal Charges (Pungli) Regency, in Kepahiang, Bengkulu Province, said that the government of President Joko Widodo and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin had decided to continue the government with a focus on infrastructure development, natural resource development, opening the door to investment as wide as possible. -wide, bureaucratic reform, and budgetary arrangements in the state budget.

"Therefore, the government views that the Saber Extortion Task Force is still needed in creating the successful implementation of national development," he said.

On that occasion, Mahfud emphasized that Saber Pungli is not a law enforcement agency to eradicate corruption. However, Saber Pungli is an institution that focuses on efforts to clean government institutions from the habit of carrying out illegal levies in the bureaucracy.

"In this context, I would like to emphasize that although it is part of an effort to build a government that is free from corruption, Saber Pungli is not a law enforcement agency to eradicate corruption, Saber Pungli is an institution that focuses on efforts to clean government institutions from the habit of carrying out illegal fees in the bureaucracy. "As for law enforcement, it is still channeled to functional legal institutions, namely the Police, the Prosecutor's Office and the KPK," Mahfud said.

Mahfud hopes that other regencies/cities in Bengkulu Province in the future can also be declared as extortion-free districts/cities in order to create public services that are clean from extortion in Bengkulu Province and continue throughout Indonesia.