KPK Duga Jatah Wage Pungut ASN Semarang City Government Cut Not According To The Rules

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspects that the wage allocation for state civil servants (ASN) of the Semarang City Government, Central Java is haphazardly cut. As a result, their income is not in accordance with what has been determined.

This was conveyed by KPK spokesman Tessa Mahardika when asked about extortion within the Semarang City Government.

"There are allegations of cutting the wage quota for employees," he said, Friday, August 2.

Even so, Tessa has not yet detailed the number of unofficial cuts.

"So that the take home pay obtained by these employees has decreased from what they should have obtained," said the spokesman with the investigator's background.

As for this allegation, the KPK has studied the process of disbursing levies or additional income allowances (TPP) through a number of witnesses. One of them, the Head of the Semarang City Bapenda, Indriyasari.

Previously reported, the KPK announced the start of the investigation of three alleged corruption crimes within the Semarang City Government (Pemkot). The details are the procurement of goods and services within the Semarang City Government in 2023-2024, the alleged extortion of civil servants related to incentives for collecting taxes and levies in the Semarang City area, as well as the alleged receipt of gratuities in 2023-2024.

Searches have been carried out in various locations such as in the cities of Semarang, Kudus, Salatiga, and others. From there, documents up to Rp1 billion and 9,650 euros were found as well as dozens of watches allegedly related to the case.

In this case, four people have been prevented from leaving the country. Based on information circulating, they are Hevearita Gunaryanti Rahayu who is the Mayor of Semarang with her husband, Alwin Basri; Chairman of the Association of Indonesian National Construction Implementers (Gapensi) Semarang City, Martono; and Rahmat Djangkar who is a private party.