MAKI's Advice To The Temporary Chair Of The KPK Regarding The Ghufron-Albertina Ho Polemic: Coordination With The Council, Redam Gejolak

JAKARTA - Coordinator of the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) Boyamin Saiman advised the Temporary Chairperson of the KPK Nawawi Pomolango to coordinate with the KPK Supervisory Board.

This effort needs to be made in order to reduce the polemic that emerged after the Deputy Chairperson of the KPK, Nurul Ghufron, reported that the member of the KPK Supervisory Board, Albertina Ho.

"Please Mr. Nawawi to immediately coordinate with the KPK Supervisory Board to coordinate and defuse this turmoil," Boyamin told reporters quoted on Saturday, April 27.

Boyamin said that the public should not think that Ghufron was trying to fight the KPK Council. Moreover, Ghufron is currently stumbling over allegations of abuse of authority related to employee mutations at the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan).

Nawawi can't just mention Ghufron's report as a personal matter, said Boyamin. "It's not allowed. So we have to coordinate and the Supervisory Board will also immediately invite the leadership to reduce this," he said.

"So it must be distinguished, this is a personal matter and which is a matter of public interest," continued Boyamin.

As previously reported, KPK Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron reported KPK Supervisory Board member Albertina Ho to the KPK Supervisory Board for allegedly abusing his authority after coordinating with the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK). In addition, he also filed a lawsuit at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN).

Albertina personally suspects that the report was carried out because Ghufron stumbled on an ethical violation of his abuse of authority related to the transfer of employees at the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) which will be tried on May 2.

Meanwhile, Ghufron submitted the assessment to the public. He only said that the reporting and lawsuits were made because he saw an ethical violation.

"It's our obligation to enforce ethics by obliging to report it," Ghufron told reporters, Thursday, April 25.

"Every member of the KPK enforces the values of integrity and is asked to report it," continued Ghufron, saying that he had handed over the entire process to the Supervisory Board.