About The KPK Official Car Budget, Saut Situmorang: I Am Riding An Innova 4 Years, It's Safe

JAKARTA - Former Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) 2015-2019 Saut Situmorang highlighted the existence of a budget for the procurement of official official cars for leadership, supervisory boards, and structural officials within the KPK.

As reported by Antara , Thursday, October 15, Saut said the procurement of official cars had no direct connection with the performance of the KPK leadership.

"It is not directly related to the leadership's performance, for example OTT (Hand-Catching Operation) and other performances. I am riding the Innova for 4 years, it's safe," said Saut in his statement.

He revealed that during the leadership of the KPK volume IV or when he took office, there was never a discussion about official cars.

"If our cars are not discussed in volume IV, the problem of cars is not urgent so that the state does not bother to take care of the cars. Just enough money for transportation and then use it for car loans and car maintenance for each leader and staff. That has been running for 4 periods. and employees, "he said.

He stated that during the leadership of the KPK volume IV, he only asked that the salary of KPK employees be increased.

"So, volume IV only asked for an increase in employee salaries, initially only the salaries of the normative leaders had to be increased first as a basis. So, there was no issue with the transportation system at that time," said Saut.

Previously, the KPK had confirmed that the Indonesian Parliament had approved the budget for official car procurement.

"In the KPK 2021 budget, the information we received is true that there is DPR approval regarding the budget for the procurement of official cars for leadership, senior citizens and structural officials within the KPK," said KPK Acting Spokesperson Ali Fikri in his statement in Jakarta, Thursday.

Based on information, the budget for the official car of KPK chairman Firli Bahuri is worth Rp1.45 billion. Meanwhile, the four deputy chairmen of the KPK are Rp1 billion each.

However, he said, the amount of detailed budget for official car procurement is currently not final.

"It is still under discussion, especially regarding the detailed budget ceiling for each official car unit," said Ali.