Former KPK Employees Still Faithfully Waiting For Position Scheme From The Police

Former KPK Officer/Wardhani Tsa Tsia/VOI

JAKARTA - The former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) employee who was eliminated due to failing the National Insight Test (TWK) is still waiting for the position scheme from the National Police. They do not want to take a stand because until now there has been no further discussion.

This follows the plan of the National Police Chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, who wants to recruit them to become state civil servants (ASN) within the Bhayangkara Corps.

"We will wait for the scheme from the police and then friends will determine their respective attitudes," said former KPK employee Hotman Tambunan to reporters quoted on Wednesday, November 10.

He said this scheme was still under discussion within the National Police. Not only that, but Hotman also said that the rules related to appointment as ASN are still being drawn up.

"It will be made in the regulations that are being drafted and everything must be written down in the form of regulations, of course, to arrive at the regulations, correspondence or correspondence between the parties concerned needs to be preceded," he said.

Moreover, Hotman and his friends are deliberately waiting for the position scheme from the National Police to ensure the positions to be given are in accordance with their expertise.

"It's true (to match expertise, ed) and (according to, ed) prudent procedures," he said.

Some time ago, the National Police stated that the process of recruiting former KPK employees to the Bhayangkara Corps was still in progress.

In addition, the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (KemenPAN-RB) supports the desire of National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit to appoint 57 former employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) as state civil servants (ASN) in the police force.

This support was conveyed by the MenPAN-RB through a letter dated October 16 with the matter of the Follow-up to Requests for Policy Determination 57 former KPK employees to become PNS Polri. This letter is addressed directly to Listyo.

"In principle, we appreciate and support the proposal of the National Police Chief to appoint 57 former KPK employees to become ASN within the Polri environment as a follow-up to the direction and approval of the President which has been conveyed through the Minister of State Secretary as part of efforts to resolve and utilize the competencies of former KPK employees as needed. Police," reads the letter quoted on Tuesday, October 26.

Previously, it was reported that 57 employees were declared unable to work at the KPK because they could not become ASN according to the mandate of the KPK Law Number 19 of 2019 as of the end of last September. The employees 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.

The anti-corruption commission argued that their inability to become ASN was not due to laws and regulations such as Perkom KPK Number 1 of 2021, but because of the results of their assessment.

Ahead of the dismissal, the National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit admitted that he wanted to recruit dozens of KPK employees who did not pass the TWK to become Polri ASN. This wish was conveyed through a letter to President Jokowi and was approved.

The reason Sigit wants to recruit dozens of employees is because the Police need human resources to strengthen the line of action against corruption cases. Moreover, the Police are currently also focusing on handling the recovery of COVID-19.