Rasamala Aritonang, A Former KPK Employee Who Now Chooses To Farm In His Hometown

JAKARTA - Former Head of the Drafting of Regulations and Legal Products at the Legal Bureau of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Rasamala Aritonang chose to farm in his hometown after being expelled from the anti-corruption commission along with 57 other employees for failing to become a State Civil Apparatus (ASN).

Aritonang's new and contradictory activities with his activities at the KPK were revealed by a former KPK employee, Aulia Postiera through her Twitter account @paijodirajo.

"Rasamala Aritonang's full name. Former Head of the Drafting of Regulations and Legal Products at the KPK Legal Bureau. One of the young geniuses and KPK legal experts," Aulia wrote as quoted by VOI, Monday, October 11.

"After the dismissal of September 30, 2021, he chose to return to his hometown and help his family in farming," he added.

Aulia then told that Rasamala was a devout Christian and diligent in going to church. However, due to the stratagem of the KPK leadership through the National Insight Test Assessment (TWK), he was dismissed even though he had a myriad of achievements.

"There are so many achievements of Rasamala at the KPK. He even accompanied 5 KPK leaders when discussing the Criminal Code Bill with the President at the Palace," said Aulia.

Aulia said Rasamala was the mainstay of the KPK before it failed in the TWK. He and Juliandi Tigor Simanjuntak, who was also dismissed and now chooses to sell fried rice, are figures who have often faced pretrials filed by corruptors since 2015.

"If anyone wants to discuss the law, as well as buy corn from Bang Rasamala's harvest, they can go to Muara, Humbang Hasundutan Regency, North Sumatra," he said.

Meanwhile, when confirmed, Rasamala confirmed his new activities which were revealed by Aulia on his Twitter account. He said he had returned to North Sumatra for the past month to help his grandfather's family, who is a farmer.

"I'm really filling this temporary time with farming and raising livestock, coincidentally my grandfather's family in the village are farmers. I've been helping them with farming for almost a month," he told reporters.

"The photo is an activity to dry corn which must be dried and sold for animal feed needs and sometimes corn bread is made, the results are pretty good for life there apart from livestock and rice," added Rasamala.

Apart from farming, he also raises livestock such as chickens and ducks. However, on the sidelines of his activities, Rasamala is sometimes still asked to fill out webinars.

"Usually in the morning I feed the chicken and duck first, only a little later after the sun is drying the corn, but sometimes I still have to take a break to fill out online webinars because there are still some requests as resource persons," he said.

Not only that, there are other activities that Rasamala does, such as writing articles for a number of media. He did this in order to contribute to changing the country for the better even though he was no longer at the KPK.

Even though her work is different now, Rasamala admits that she doesn't mind it. He even admitted that he was happy to be back in his hometown to help his family.

"This new routine makes my mind fresh, while making plans for new goals. One of my teachers said: life is like riding a bicycle, you have to keep going, you can't stop, if you arrive at one destination you set the next destination, until you don't I can ride my bike again," he concluded.