KPK Will Handle Khofifah's Corruption Alleged Report

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has confirmed that each report of alleged corruption they will receive will be handled. No exception reports against former East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa.

"In principle, of course, the KPK will explore, yes, the data, the information received," said Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri to reporters at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Tuesday, June 4.

Ali said the deepening was carried out to determine whether or not the report could be followed up. "It will be determined whether there really is a criminal incident and it is categorized as corruption," he said.

"If it is categorized as corruption, then whether it is the authority of the KPK," continued Ali.

Previously reported, the Civil Society Communication Forum reported allegations of corruption related to project work at the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos). It is suspected that there was a state loss that occurred when Khofifah Indar Parawansa served as Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos).

"What we reported was the chairman, the Minister (at that time, ed) Khofifah Indar Parawansa, the two PPK and the KPA, the three of them," said Head of the Civil Community Communication Forum Sutikno at the KPK's Red and White Building, South Jakarta, Tuesday, June 4.

Sutikno said his presence at the anti-corruption commission was not the first time. A similar report was also submitted in 2018 or six years ago but was not followed up.

Therefore, he initiated to return to the KPK office. Sutikno admitted that he brought additional evidence in the form of files from the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).

"In the past, six years ago we reported it, we calculated the loss of Rp. 58 billion while we just got an audit from the BPK, the loss of the project we reported was Rp. 98 billion in the case at the Ministry of Social Affairs in 2015, the verification and validation program for the poor," he explained.

Apart from Khofifah, Adi Karyono, who is the current Acting Governor of East Java, has also been reported. This name was dragged into the power of budget users. "It turned out that in 2015, apart from the verification and validation program, there was a program called tent procurement and it was also suspected that there was a loss of Rp7.8 M (from, red) the procurement of the tent. The power of the user of the budget is now the Acting Governor of East Java Adi Karyono," said Sutikno.