Firli Bahuri Ensures The Dismissal Of 57 KPK Employees Due To Not Passing The TWK Is In Accordance With The Rules

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has confirmed that the dismissal of 57 employees who did not pass the National Insight Test (TWK) was in accordance with applicable regulations. The KPK also denied that anyone stated that this decision was taken quickly for certain purposes.

This was conveyed by the KPK leadership because previously the dismissal was carried out at the end of next October or effective from November 1.

"We are subject to the law, so there is no acceleration or deceleration. It's just a decision," said KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri in a press conference broadcast on the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Wednesday, September 15.

Firli also emphasized that this dismissal did not need to wait until the end of October or exactly two years after the enactment of the KPK Law Number 19 of 2019 which became the basis for the transfer of employee status. According to him, this termination can be done within the maximum time limit.

Moreover, according to Firli, the dismissal of Novel Baswedan et al who did not pass the TWK was only half a month ahead of the previous schedule.

Similarly, the Deputy Chairperson of the KPK, Nurul Ghufron, also stated that there was no problem with the acceleration of the dismissal. He even gave an example that this also happens when someone takes education where the sooner it is completed, he said, the better.

"His name is the longest you can finish school for a maximum of 4 years, his parents said, the longest, if possible is one year, thank God," said Ghufron on the same occasion.

He ensured that the KPK had coordinated with the government, in this case the Kemenpan RB and the National Personnel Agency (BKN) regarding the results of the TWK. Ghufron said the coordination meeting with the two institutions was held on September 13 after the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court issued their decisions.

"Because we want to make the decision based on a strong law because this issue was submitted by a competent state institution, namely the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court," said Ghufron.

Previously reported, as many as 75 KPK employees were initially declared ineligible or did not meet the requirements in the TWK assessment process as a condition for the transfer of employee status. Of this number, 24 of them can be trained, although recently only 18 have participated in the training for State Defense and National Insight.

So that the total number of employees who are considered unable to be trained and do not want to carry out training because their request for clarity on the results of the TWK has not been given is 57 people.

There are also those who are no longer able to work at the KPK because they do not pass the TWK and are considered no longer able to be fostered through state defense education and national insight, including senior KPK investigators Novel Baswedan and Ambarita Damanik, Chairman of the KPK Employee Forum Yudi Purnomo, KPK investigator Harun Al-Karmin. Rashid, as well as dozens of other names.