Waiting For The Performance Of New Leaders With The KPK Supervisory Board

Illustration KPK (Wardhany Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The leadership of the Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for the 2019-2023 period Firli Bahuri will have a heavy burden. Not only solving cases left by Agus Rahardjo et al, but also the burden to prove to the community that changes in the structure within the institution do not affect their performance.

The Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (Fitra) said, not because there is a KPK Supervisory Board within the institution then make their performance decrease. Moreover, during the tenure of Agus Rahardjo et al, this anti-graft agency managed to save the state funds amounting to Rp1.5 trillion.

In fact, the return of state assets (asset recovery) from corruption cases was successfully carried out by the KPK significantly, reaching Rp532 billion in 2016.

"Do not let this latest regulation regarding the structure and work procedures, the KPK's performance in eradicating corruption has actually decreased compared to previous periods," said Secretary General of FITRA Misbah Hasan in a written statement, Saturday, December 21 and added that this should be a concern and must be. proven by the new KPK leadership.

FITRA also highlighted the steps taken by hand-catching operations (OTT) which are usually used as a way to uncover corruption cases. Do not let this catch operation become ineffective under the leadership of Firli Bahuri because of the supervisory board.

"The supervisory board should not even be accused of being the source of the problem in the effectiveness of the KPK in conducting OTT," said Misbah.

"In fact (with the presence of Dewas KPK) the activities of the KPK OTT should have increased its progress," he added.

KPK Leadership and Supervisory Board (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

Indeed, since the existence of Law Number 19 of 2019 there has been a change in the structure within the KPK. Now, this anti-corruption agency has a supervisory board whose duties are regulated in Article 37B, which among other things, supervises the implementation of the KPK's duties and powers and grants or does not grant permits for wiretapping, searches and confiscation.

So that by the public, this supervisory board is considered as one of the steps that will interfere with the prosecution of corruption cases.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the KPK, Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, has actually responded to the question of public skepticism regarding the existence of this council. According to him, this skepticism will in fact motivate the performance of the supervisory board that has been appointed by President Jokowi to be even better.

Tumpak, who is a former KPK Commissioner volume I, said it was fine if there was one eye view of the public.

"So for us there is no problem, if anyone was skeptical," said Tumpak at the KPK Building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Friday, December 20.

He also said that the existence of the KPK Supervisory Board was indeed complicated. It's just that this council must exist because it has been ratified in the Corruption Eradication Commission Law Number 19 of 2019. "I know this is complicated about the presence of the KPK Dewas, but yes, it has been legalized," he said.

So he asked the public to no longer question the position of the KPK Dewas and hoped that the presence of this council could be accepted to strengthen the path to eradicating corruption.

"Let's do it well together. Even if there are shortcomings there, here, maybe we can slowly improve it again," he said.

It is known that together with the five KPK leaders for the 2019 period, for the first time President Jokowi inaugurated the supervisory board. Those who were inaugurated were Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, Albertina Ho, Artidjo Alkostar, Syamsudin Haris, and Harjono.