JAKARTA - The operation to catch corruptors ala the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is often supported by all Indonesian people. This step is considered a real action of the country against the practice of corruption. However, not everyone supports the corruptors' OTT step.
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, for example. He considers OTT to be a dangerous thing. The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) considers that the country's image can be damaged because of OTT. Luhut also believes that OTT is a way to eradicate corruption.
The advent of the reform era did not make the corruption case decrease. Those who use their power to steal state funds are actually busy. The Indonesian people also demand the government to be brave against corruptors.
The desire then bore fruit in the birth of an anti-corruption institution: the KPK. The presence of the KPK since 2003 is considered effective. No official is truly immune when practicing corruption. The KPK is also able to arrest corruptors from the class of regional heads to ministers.
The KPK's most well-known dish is OTT. The operation proved effective because corruptors could not escape because of corruption. The KPK's achievements in OTT are brilliant. In fact, the KPK has revealed that they can OTT every day if the government adds KPK personnel.
The result is that the KPK has grown into the most trusted state institution for all Indonesian people. Problems arise. The OTT operation carried out by the KPK actually did not make the number of corruption in Indonesia decrease. Corruption cases are still rampant.
The narrative makes the KPK, which is much praised, is also criticized by many parties. Criticism does not only come from ordinary people. Criticism also comes from the government body of the era of Joko Widodo (Jokowi) through Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.
The 2016-2024 Menko Marves considered that the KPK had too much OTT. Luhut considered that the OTT step would bring Indonesia's image to a bad image in the eyes of the world. Luhut also joked that if the KPK always wanted to catch corruptors, Luhut asked the KPK to expand the OTT operation to heaven only.
Luhut revealed this condition because he saw that the KPK did not work effectively. The anti-corruption institution is only busy arresting corruptors, without wanting to advance the agenda of preventing corruption.
"Because this is changing this country, we don't try to talk high-high, we OTT-OTT it's not good actually, it's really bad for this country. Yes, if you live a little bit you can. We want to clean up in heaven only you. "
"So the KPK should not catch a little bit, that's it. Yes, look, but if this digitization is already underway, according to me, (corruptors) can't play around. It's not ugly, it's ugly for us because we make opportunities for OTT, if everything is digitized, there may not be OTT, it's good," said Luhut as quoted by the kompas.com page, December 20, 2022.
Kampungan OTTLuhut's criticism of the KPK has become a polemic. Instead of getting sympathy, Luhut's views are considered problematic. Luhut is seen as giving space so that corruptors can steal state funds. Luhut also did not give up throwing criticism at the KPK.
He emphasized his criticism of the KPK because he offered a digitalization step. A step that makes all kinds of activities of officials can be recorded. This condition is considered to reduce the opportunity for people to commit corruption.
Luhut's criticism of the KPK is getting louder. He again criticized the OTT efforts carried out by the KPK. The KPK's OTT operation is considered outdated: kampungan. Luhut faces criticism because he feels that digitization is more helpful to the country than the KPK's OTT.
Digitalization can save hundreds of trillion rupiah in funds, compared to the funds returned by the KPK through OTT. Luhut considers that each OTT carried out by the KPK only produces 50-100 million.
OTT then became crowded and viral. In fact, there is a digitalization option that is not full of drama. Even though Luhut was then again condemned by all the people and his views became controversial.
"So this digitalization, people are angry with me when I say OTT is a mess because with digital we build an ecosystem, people can't steal. Why? Because everything is with a machine, and you deal with a machine. "
"Now you don't know, over the past year, how many trillion have been saved by the KPK. One purchase of a laptop, there is a report to me, one item, it can save 40 percent of how many trillion. "This is to make it difficult. So this country has to be built, we bring it in one system. So it's not OTT-OTT Rp50-100 million, crowded, so it's a drama," said Luhut as quoted by CNBC Indonesia, September 17, 2024.
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