Deputy Chairman Of The Corruption Eradication Commission: Corruption Actors Already Entered Millennials

Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron (Photo: PR KPK)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron revealed that the perpetrators of corruption are currently starting to spread to young people, aka millennials.

This was conveyed by Ghufron at the 4th Anti-Corruption Summit (ACS) 2020 with the theme "Quo Vadis Eradication of Corruption" held virtually through the KPK Youtube account, reported by Antara, Wednesday, November 18.

"Not only old officials but also millennials who are still 29 (years), 32 (years), and others," said Ghufron.

Meanwhile, when viewed from the level of education, he said, 64 percent of the perpetrators of corruption were undergraduate. This is of course very unfortunate.

"It turns out that the hope is that education will have more character with more integrity, it turns out that 64 percent of the perpetrators are" graduates "not uneducated," he said.

Then, he said, the crime of corruption was evenly distributed throughout Indonesia. "It does not differentiate between parties, not then party A is holy while other parties make mistakes, no. It turns out that it is almost the same, does not differentiate between ethnicities and religions of the perpetrators," said Ghufron.

According to him, the perpetrators are relatively the same, namely from the private sector, regional heads, council members, and central and regional officials.

"Then from the" locus ", the" locus "that occurred were almost the same, namely bribery in the procurement of goods / services, bribery in licensing and human resources. Focus on these three things, the others are evenly distributed," said Ghufron.

Furthermore, related to the mode of corruption, namely bribery as much as 66 percent and extortion and gratification of 22 percent.

"The method is also almost the same, namely using" cash ", transferring accounts or it could be in foreign currency. Some even then for high-level bribes can be carried out abroad not in Indonesia so that the KPK or other law enforcement officials do not catch it. Indonesia, "he said.