KPK Still Holds State Defense Training Even Though Rejection Blows

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continues to carry out National Defense Training and National Insights for employees who do not pass the National Insight Test Assessment (TWK) but can still be saved.

Even though at the same time there were a number of employees who did not qualify and were disabled and refused to participate in this activity. The employees reasoned that their test results were still failing to switch status to State Civil Apparatus (ASN).

KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri officially opened the National Defense and Insight Education and Training which was held at the Defense University, Sentul, Bogor, West Java. In his remarks, he said, 18 of the 24 employees who were still willing to participate in the activity had a chivalrous spirit.

"KPK appreciates all employees who are willing to take part in the training," said Firli in a written statement to reporters, Thursday, July 22.

The former Deputy for Enforcement of the KPK said the 18 employees were people who were willing to serve the country in accordance with the mandate of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.

"Today is a big day with a chivalrous spirit where KPK employees are willing to serve, love, and be loyal to the country according to the ideals contained in Pancasila and the Constitution," he said.

The National Defense and National Insight Training and Education will be held from July 22 to August 30. Of the 18 employees who participated in this training, 16 people will follow it in person and 2 employees will carry it out online due to exposure to COVID-19.

The training materials include basic, core, and supporting studies. Basic studies include national insight (4 Basic State Consensus); Sishankamrata; state-defense-minded leadership; prevention and control of terrorism and radicalism; and social conflict.

While the core study consists of developing the values and basic skills of defending the country. While supporting studies include the implementation of the opening and closing ceremonies, local content (KPK), as well as guidance and care.

Firli Bahuri has indeed opened the training activity. However, 6 out of 24 employees who were supposed to take part in this activity chose not to participate because their test results had not yet been given.

One of the employees who did not participate in the State Defense and National Insight Training was Ita Khoiriyah or commonly called Tata. He admitted that he was reluctant to participate because there was no clarity and transparency regarding the process and the results of the TWK assessment.

"How can I believe that the coaching that has an evaluation with a minimum score limit is carried out transparently and can be accounted for if the KPK doesn't want to disclose my personal TWK results?" he wrote on his Twitter account.

He raised the question when he met the Deputy Chairman of the KPK, Nurul Ghufron, who asked him to submit a letter of readiness to participate in state defense training. Tata admits that he is willing to participate in the training as long as he gets the results of his TWK assessment.

Instead of receiving information, Tata admitted that he did not believe in the KPK leadership. "You don't believe me?" he wrote imitating Nurul Ghufron's words.

Furthermore, he said that Ghufron argued that the results of the assessment were not given because they were confidential. This is the result obtained by the KPK after coordinating with the State Civil Service Agency (BKN).

Another non-active KPK employee who is reluctant to participate in state defense training is Hotman Tambunan. This reluctance arose because the activity did not have a clear legal basis and was considered a form of arbitrary deprivation of human rights against 75 KPK employees who were declared ineligible.

For information, from the results of the TWK there were 75 employees who did not graduate, one of which was senior investigator Novel Baswedan. Of this number, 24 of them can be saved while 51 other employees will be laid off in November.

"From the start, the training had no legal basis because PP number 41 of 2020 regarding status transfer is only known as orientation training, and it can be done in the context of increasing the competence of all employees, not just the 24," said Hotman Tambunan

He is of the opinion that the basis for the rules for the State Defense Training and National Insight is only based on the official report on May 25, which was signed by six state institutions. Thus, Hotman considers that there has been an arbitrariness committed by the heads of these institutions, including dismissal.

"Six leaders of this institution have violated the law by abusing their authority and based on Law 30 of 2014 the administrative sanctions are heavy and that is included in the dismissal of state officials," he concluded.