Reasons For The Police To Recruit 57 Ex-KPK Employees: Experience Is Very Helpful

Karo Penmas Police Public Relations Division Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono/Polri Public Relations DOK

JAKARTA - The National Police explained the reasons behind the decision to recruit 57 former employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) as State Civil Apparatus (ASN) for the Bhayangkara Corps. One of them is because their experience can help eradicate corruption in Indonesia.

"The National Police Chief sees this as something that can be used by the Indonesian National Police in order to eradicate corruption based on experience, based on competence, it is a special assessment from the National Police leadership," said Head of Public Information Bureau (Karo Penmas) of the Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, to reporters, Thursday, December 2.

With this recruitment, it is hoped that it will strengthen the Directorate of Corruption Crimes (Dittipidkor) of the National Police-Criminal Investigation Department. That way, Indonesia can be clean from corruption.

"So that some people can together with the police strengthen the main tasks of the police in eradicating corruption in the country," he said.

Police continued Rusdi will continue to maximally eradicate corruption. In addition, in the process, it will cooperate with other institutions.

In fact, the seriousness of the Police is evidenced by the disclosure of the alleged corruption case at PT Jakarta Infrastruktur Propertindo (JIP). In that case, the former President Director, Ario Pramadhi, and VP Finance & IT, Christman Desanto, were named as suspects.

"Yesterday, a JIP was released. One of the pieces of evidence of the police handling corruption," he said.