JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continues to investigate allegations of bribery in the procurement of goods and services and the auction of positions that ensnared the inactive Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi. Including, investigating the involvement of other parties and one of them is the Bekasi City Government DPRD.
"How is the involvement of the DPRD? Of course we will look into this," said KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri, quoted from the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Friday, January 7.
According to him, this research is important to do. Moreover, DPRD is a vulnerable area for corrupt practices because it is involved in the budget planning process.
"In the planning sector, it is prone to corruption. How to prepare the APBD, amend the APBD, ratify the APBD, change the implementation of the APBD, and execute the budget," said the former Deputy for Enforcement of the Corruption Eradication Commission.
It didn't stop there, Firli said, the task of supervising the allocation of the budget also made it easy for the DPRD to become entangled in violent acts.
"The supervision stage is also prone to corruption. This is our common homework. I hope that all levels of society together with the KPK will help to rid Indonesia of corruption," he stressed. Previously, the KPK had named Rahmat Effendi or who is familiarly called Kang Pepen as a suspect for receiving bribes. He is suspected of receiving up to billions of rupiah in money related to the procurement of goods and services as well as the sale and purchase of positions.
The determination of him as a suspect began with a hand arrest operation (OTT) which was carried out on Wednesday, January 5. Pepen is the first regional head to be arrested by the KPK earlier this year.
Apart from Pepen, other parties designated as recipients of bribes are the Secretary of the Investment Office and PTSP of Bekasi City; Head of Kati Sari Village, Mulyadi alias Bayong; Jatisampurna Sub-district Head, Wahyudin; and Head of the Bekasi City Housing, Settlement and Land Office, Jumhana Lutfi.
Meanwhile the Director of PT MAM Energindo, Ali Amril; private named Lai Bui Min; Director of PT Kota Bintang Rayatri, Suryadi; and the sub-district head of Rawa Lumbu, Makhfud Saifudin, was named the bribe giver.
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