Ask Firli Bahuri Et Al To Resign Or Be Disabled, Ex-KPK Director: Otherwise The Damage Will Continue To Happen

JAKARTA - Former Director of Inter-Commission Network Development and Corruption Eradication Commission Agencies (PJKAKI KPK) Sujanarko requested that Firli Bahuri et al resign or at least be disabled from their positions.

This was conveyed in response to the findings of the Indonesian Ombudsman regarding maladministration in the National Insight Test Assessment (TWK) process for KPK employees as a condition for the transfer of employee status. One of the maladministration found was the abuse of authority by the KPK leadership.

"Legally the Ombudsman (five KPK leaders, ed) was declared to have abused their authority. If five people are not immediately deactivated or not immediately ordered to resign, the damage will continue and cannot be controlled," said Sujanarko in an online press conference, Wednesday, 21 July.

For information, Sujanarko is 1 of 75 KPK employees who were declared not to have passed the TWK before retiring. He was declared ineligible along with senior investigator Novel Baswedan, Chairman of the KPK Employee Forum Yudi Purnomo Harahap, and other investigators and investigators.

Yudi then asked for a study to be conducted to determine whether or not Firli Bahuri et al were deactivated and replaced with executor after the Ombudsman presented their findings. "We can imagine that a state institution that has a budget of Rp. 1 trillion whose job is to eradicate corruption is a state institution that has been declared to have violated the law, abused its authority," he said.

"So in my opinion, it is also necessary to study whether the current leadership is deactivated and replaced by the head of the Acting (executive)," he added

Similarly, the Head of the inactive Internal Learning Task Force of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Hotman Tambunan also considers Firli Bahuri and other KPK leaders to be temporarily dismissed.

Moreover, reflecting on Law Number 30 of 2014 concerning government administration, officials who abuse their authority can be subject to severe sanctions and dismissed from their positions.

"If state officials, especially KPK leaders with extraordinary powers, have committed violations, acts of abuse of authority, then it is appropriate to think about stopping temporarily," said Hotman.

Previously reported, the Ombudsman stated that there was maladministration in the entire process of implementing the TWK. The chairman of the Indonesian Ombudsman, Mokhammad Najih, said that his party found procedural irregularities in the implementation of the test which became a determinant in the transition of the status of KPK employees to ASN.

The results of the examination related to the TWK assessment focused on three main issues. First, it relates to a series of processes for the policy formation of the transition of KPK employees to ASN. second, the process of implementing the transition of KPK employees to ASN and the third is at the stage of determining the results of the TWK assessment.

"Those are the three things that the ombudsman found maladministration," Najih said at a press conference conducted online.