Novel Baswedan Says There Are Dominant KPK Leaders And Disrupts Performance

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) senior investigator Novel Baswedan said he often heard complaints from a number of leaders. This complaint is related to the leadership of the anti-corruption commission who dominates the decision-making process at the institution.

"It is said that there are KPK leaders who are too dominant. Even in some circumstances, four leaders want to do something and this one doesn't want to, it can't happen," Novel said in a discussion broadcast on the YouTube Public Virtue Institute, Sunday, June 20.

The novel did not mention who the KPK leadership was who complained to him. He also did not reveal who the dominating leader was.

However, he emphasized that the complaint was true and this dominance led to the disruption of the corruption eradication process. "This is what some of the KPK leaders mentioned earlier, that it often interferes with," said Novel.

"Because, if something like that happens, the dynamics of decision-making at the KPK will be disturbed by such things," he added.

The news about the dominance of one of the KPK leaders was also mentioned by a researcher from the Center for Constitutional Studies (PUSAKO) Andalas University, Feri Amsari.

He once said that the four KPK leaders, namely Nurul Ghufron, Nawawi Pomolango, Alexander Marwata, and Lili Pintauli Siregar, were puppets because they simply followed the wishes of KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri and did not follow the collegial collective principle.

"This is strange, the other four leaders do not understand collegial collectives. I see that the other leaders are just puppets driven by the same interest in Pak Firli," Feri told reporters, Friday, May 14.

He considers that so far there has never been a position taken by the four leaders of the anti-corruption commission. "More of them are useless people in the KPK," said Feri.