The Terms Of 5 Years Of Experience At The KPK Are Called Potential For Bisas Recruitment

JAKARTA Indonesian Audit Watch (IAW) assesses the conditions the experience of a minimum relevant position of five years in the recruitment of strategic officials from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) 2025 has the potential to become a biased gap that weakens meritocracy. This criticism was conveyed by IAW's Founding Secretary, Iskandar Sitorus, who assessed that the relevant terms in the regulation were too flexible and did not reflect the operational needs of anti-corruption agencies.

Iskandar said that the five-year requirement for experience was legally valid because it was stated in the ASN Law and PP 11/2017. However, he assessed that the substance of the regulation does not automatically guarantee the competencies needed by the KPK.

"It's like measuring swimming skills from a long time standing by the pool," said Iskandar, Friday, November 14.

According to him, five years of experience at the KPK, the Prosecutor's Office, or the National Police have different work characters. But in the selection process, all of these experiences are treated the same as 'relevant'. He assessed that this approach opens a subjective interpretation space.

"This is where the bias gap arises, because subjective interpretations can open up a lobby space, and the lobby can knock down the spirit of meritocracy," he said.

IAW highlighted that the recommendations of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) in the 2015 '2024 LHP have repeatedly asked the KPK to strengthen the objective recruitment indicators. However, after the 2019 revision of the KPK Law, the indicators were considered to be increasingly vague. Iskandar likened the current situation to changes in the function of the national insight test.

TWK used to be used as an ideological filter, now the relevant experience is used as an administrative fence. Everything seems legitimate, but does not automatically produce investigators or directors with anti-corruption competencies.

According to IAW, this weakness can be seen in the selection of Directors of Investigations. Of the five candidates, some came from the Prosecutor's Office and some from internal KPK.

"Both have five years of experience, but do they weigh the same weight? Five years of investigating general crimes is certainly different from five years at the heart of corruption investigations," said Iskandar. He assessed that the validation mechanism of experience is still weak because there is no independent test and there is no point matrix to assess the quality of tasks.

To improve the system, IAW proposed that the KPK issue special regulations on assessment of relevant experiences accompanied by the competency matrix of each position, work impact-based point systems, non-structural experience recognition, and assessment models that are not only administrative. IAW encourages the KPK to adopt international anti-corruption agency standards such as the FBI and ICAC.

"If a corruptor plays in the digital world, is the investigator still screened using a decree and the length of his tenure?" he said.

Iskandar explained that in ideal models, relevant experience must be assessed by measurable composition: 40 percent technical competence, 40 percent integrity and leadership, and 20 percent cultural fitness and institutional vision. Therefore, he assessed that the public has the right to ask questions when the KPK requires a five-year relevant experience. "Relevant to whom? For work, or for the convenience of the system? " he said.

According to IAW, if the KPK wants to really uphold integrity and effectiveness, then the relevant term should not stop at a length of time. "Relevant must be meaningful. Relevant to the challenges of the times. Because today's corruption does not wait five years to adapt," said Iskandar.