KPK Will Focus On Supervising Political Year With An Increase In Leadership Term

JAKARTA - The leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will focus on monitoring the implementation of the 2024 General Election (Pemilu). The increase in their term of office to five years is expected to be useful for uncovering fraudulent practices in the midst of a democratic party.

"We will direct our priority there (the 2024 political year, ed). How can the election run honestly and fairly," said KPK Deputy Chair Alexander Marwata in a KPK RI YouTube broadcast, Thursday, August 24.

Alexander wants whoever is elected from a democratic party is the right person. Do not let them sit in public positions because they buy the people by giving money.

"We want the public not to make the wrong choice of leadership or representatives. Because the impact will be borne by the community itself for the next five years," he said.

He then mentioned that there had been several programs to prevent fraud during the election. "This is a priority for the KPK for 2024," said Alexander.

"For which we can oversee elections that are intelligent and with integrity. The KPK wants to encourage people to exercise their rights intelligently and with integrity by rejecting every lure to influence their minds freely," he continued.

Previously reported, Firli Bahuri et al's tenure continued to increase to five years. This is because the Constitutional Court (MK) has rejected the judicial review submitted by the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI).

MAKI filed a lawsuit not to reject the addition of the KPK leadership term to five years. But so that the decision is not carried out during Firli's leadership.

Meanwhile, the lawsuit for adding a leadership term was filed by the Deputy Chairperson of the KPK, Nurul Ghufron. The verdict was read out on Thursday, May 25.

"Declaring Article 34 of the KPK Law which originally reads 'KPK leaders hold office for 4 years and can be re-elected only for one term' contrary to the 1945 Constitution and do not have conditionally binding legal force as long as it is interpreted as 'KPK leaders hold office for 5 years and can be re-elected only for one term of office,' said Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Anwar Usman, which was broadcast on the MK YouTube channel.

There were several considerations in the decision. Among them, for the sake of alignment, because the four-year term scheme, recruitment was carried out twice, namely December 2019 and December 2023.