Not The KPK, Nurul Ghufron Calls The Enemy Of Regional Heads Corruption

Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Nurul Ghufron at the Integrated Corruption Eradication Meeting in Maluku (PHOTO: KPK Public Relations)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron said the vision and mission of regional heads will be difficult to implement if they are not able to defeat the enemy. However, the enemy is not law enforcement officers such as the KPK, but the practice of corruption.

He said this when speaking at the Integrated Corruption Eradication Meeting in Maluku, Thursday, November 4. The activity was carried out at the Maluku Governor's Office.

"Who is the Governor's enemy? The Governor's enemy is not the KPK, the Regional Police, the Attorney General's Office or the DPRD. The enemy of the Governor's vision is corruption," Ghufron said as quoted from his written statement.

The practice of corruption, he continued, must be made a common enemy because it has many impacts on society such as undermining the democratic process, undermining the law, violating human rights, and reducing the quality of life and sustainable development.

Not only that, corruption can also disrupt economic activities such as making competition unhealthy and causing market and price damage.

With these various bad effects of corruption, Ghufron asked regional heads to be aware and able to control themselves. They are not allowed to take advantage of their authority as officials and act presumptuously by misappropriating regional finances.

Regional heads, said Ghufron, must try to make this practice an internal enemy. "While the external enemy is the environment of the regional head, namely those who want to take advantage of the position of the regional head," he said.

Ghufron reminded that currently many regional heads have become suspects at the KPK. Thus, he hopes that there will be no additional figures, especially from Maluku Province.

"KPK recorded 152 regional heads who were involved in corruption based on data on the handling of KPK cases in 2004-31 March 2021. We hope this number does not increase," said Ghufron.

Finally, he also asked regional heads in Maluku to increase the Monitoring Center for Prevention (MCP) score as an indicator of the achievement of corruption prevention efforts in their respective regions. Moreover, the achievement figures in the province are still at the middle level of the national average.

"The average MCP achievement for the Maluku region until October 2021 is 36.29. This figure is still at the middle level of the national average. I ask that it be increased until the end of the year," he said.

Responding to the statement, Maluku Governor Murad Ismail ensured that he was ready to carry out a corruption prevention program with his staff. Not only that, he will prepare structured and systematic steps.

"We instruct all levels of provincial, district and city officials to follow up on this anti-corruption commitment by taking structured and systematic steps to prevent and eradicate corruption in any form," he said.