A Number Of Crucial Issues To Pay Attention To Regarding The Port Mafia

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JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan asked law enforcement officials to wipe out the disturbing port mafia. However, it turns out that there are a number of crucial issues that must be addressed to prevent this illegal practice from recurring.

Mafia practices at ports in the country make Luhut sick. He asked law enforcement officers such as the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the police, and the attorney general's office to take firm action against rogue elements who have harmed many parties.

"I ask the KPK with the prosecutor's office, the police, come on, let's form a task force to monitor this. I think it's good to be imprisoned," Luhut said when speaking in an online program.

Furious with the mafia's cheating game, Luhut hopes that law enforcement officials can imprison them. "It's clear that there are still various kinds of people like this, I already told Pak Pahala (Deputy for Prevention and Monitoring of the KPK Pahala Nainggolan), let's take this person who has clearly damaged our system, replaced or imprisoned him," he said.

In response to this, the Chairman of the KPK, Firli Bahuri, revealed that there are four crucial problems that must be resolved in order to eradicate the port mafia. The first problem is that there are still port and airport authorities that do not use the Indonesia Port Integration (Inaportnet) application system.

Whereas the application should be used when providing services, monitoring, and evaluation. "And it has not been integrated with the services of port business entities. This has resulted in the loss of potential state revenue," said Firli in a written statement to reporters.

Next, it is still found that the provision of port services is not recorded in the system. Firli said, this indicates that this is still done manually and makes corrupt practices prone to occur.

"In other words, it is still done manually and it is considered that the amount of payment for port service users does not match what it should be so that it is prone to corruption," explained the former Deputy for Enforcement of the KPK.

Furthermore, the finding of discrepancies in needs, qualifications, institutions, and work implementation processes in the loading and unloading process at the port is also a problem. In fact, this practice, said Firli, not only harms service users but also harms the loading and unloading implementation itself because of the length of the bureaucracy.

Finally, he said there were still port services that were not yet integrated with each other, such as quarantine services and limited human resources.

"Of course this is our common homework, and I hope that through this forum, the national strategy for preventing corruption can be optimized, so that services are easier, time is shorter and costs are cheaper. What we get we invest in our country. we can dig," said Firli.