Dismissed As Of September 31, KPK Employees Inactive: What's The Matter, Mr. President Allows And Understands There Are Violations?

President Joko Widodo (Photo: Twitter @jokowi)

JAKARTA - Head of the inactive Anti-Corruption Learning Task Force of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Hotman Tambunan questioned President Joko Widodo (Jokowi)'s responsibility for the dismissal of 57 anti-corruption commission employees who did not pass the National Insight Test (TWK).

"How come the statesman, who cares about the progress of the nation, allows and tolerates maladministration based on the findings of the Indonesian Ombudsman state institution and the human rights violations against Komnas HAM's findings in the administration of his government," said Hotman to reporters quoted on Thursday, September 16.

In addition, he also regrets Firli Bahuri et al's decision to fire him and 56 other employees. Moreover, this dismissal was carried out by hiding behind the rule of law but on the other hand they ignored constitutional provisions such as carrying out the recommendations of the Indonesian Ombudsman and Komnas HAM which had been submitted to President Jokowi.

Even so, Hotman admitted that he understood the attitude of the KPK leadership who ignored the recommendation. Because, he continued, Firli Bahuri et al often violate ethics.

"KPK leaders act like that, I understand that they just ignore ethics," he said.

Furthermore, Hotman also assessed that the KPK leadership only adhered to normative rules based on the decisions of the Supreme Court (MA) and the Constitutional Court (MK). Meanwhile, against these violations and maladministration, the anti-corruption commission tends to turn a blind eye.

"It's like the KPK has the authority to investigate but during their investigation they beat people, they intimidate people. That's not a valid investigation, but they always argue that the KPK has the authority to investigate, that's the analogy," he said.

It was previously reported that 57 employees who have not passed the TWK will be dismissed at the end of September. This decision was taken because they cannot become State Civil Apparatus (ASN) according to the mandate of the KPK Law Number 19 of 2019.

It's just that their inability to become ASN is not due to laws and regulations such as Perkom KPK Number 1 of 2021 but because of the results of their assessment.

The KPK also ensures that employees have been given the same opportunity even if they have passed the age limit or have stopped being ASN before.

The dismissal was carried out based on government regulation (PP) number 63 of 2005 concerning the Human Resources Management System of the KPK Articles 18 and 19 paragraph (3) letter d with the reason that the dismissal was due to organizational demands.

For information, as many as 75 KPK employees were initially declared unsuccessful or did not meet the requirements in the TWK assessment process as a condition for employee status transfer. 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.

Those who are no longer able to work at the KPK because they do not pass the TWK and are considered unable to be fostered through state defense education and national insight include senior KPK investigators Novel Baswedan and Ambarita Damanik, Chairman of the KPK Employee Forum Yudi Purnomo, KPK investigator Harun Al-Rasyid, and dozens of other names.