OTT Called More Difficult, KPK Will Take Advantage Of LHKPN Handling Corruption Cases

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Alexander Marwata said his party would take advantage of state administrators' wealth reports (LHKPN) to investigate allegations of corruption. This method is done because recent hand arrest operations (OTT) are considered increasingly difficult to do.

"There is no need for OTT anymore if you want to regarding cases, it can be through LHKPN and PPATK. We will actually encourage this in addition to receiving reports as well," said Alexander Marwata as quoted from his written statement, Wednesday, April 3.

"If the current OTT is getting more difficult, why don't we use documents that are legally more valid," he continued.

Agreeing with Alexander, Beti Alisjahbana, who is a observer of corruption issues as well as the selection committee (pansel) for the 2015-2019 KPK leadership, said efforts to eradicate corruption must take advantage of other methods, including innovating. One of them, by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI).

"KPK needs to continue to develop technology utilization including large data and AI analysis to detect patterns of corruption and suspicious transactions in real time," said Beti.

Meanwhile, Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Kurnia Ramadhana said that eradicating corruption cannot only prioritize one aspect. Prevention and prosecution must run simultaneously, including coordination with supervision.

However, prosecution should not be put aside just because it always attracts the attention of the public.

"People have known the image of the KPK from exposure to the news of prosecution," said Kurnia.

"The decline in quantity and quality of KPK enforcement has made public trust decrease because some of the actions taken have not been fully revealed," concluded the anti-corruption activist.