'Lawan', KPK Requests To Entrepreneurs When Riceed By ASN Concerning Licensing

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JAKARTA - The KPK asks entrepreneurs not to be silent if they are blackmailed by civil servants regarding the management of business licensing.

"We remind them once again, don't want to be victims of extortion, because there are also people, if you don't want to do this, I don't give permission," said the Director of Community Participation Development of the KPK, Brigadier General Kumbul Kuswidjanto Sudjadi on the sidelines of the World Technical Guidance Anti-Corruption Business activities at the Kepatihan Complex, Yogyakarta, Thursday, November 3.

The KPK hopes that business actors will dare to refuse and fight these efforts. Even if necessary, report it directly to the KPK so that it is not trapped by bribes or gratuities.

"From the cases we handled, almost 80 percent were related to gratification and bribery, especially those related to business actors," he said, quoted by Antara.

Not only related to licensing, according to him, cases of bribery and gratification also have the potential for business actors to compete unhealthyly in the process of procuring state officials' goods and services.

According to Kumbul, based on records from 2004 to September 2022, out of a total of 1,444 corruption perpetrators handled by the KPK, 363 of them were business actors.

"Eat it, we provide technical guidance to business actors, don't add the number of perpetrators so we remind them not to get involved in corruption, including we remind them to fight back," said Kumbul.

To suppress corruption cases involving business actors and government officials, previously the KPK had also formed Regional Advocacy Committees (KAD) in various regions to bridge the interests of business actors and local governments.

"Traising business actors with the government then jointly synergizes so that in other words there are no golden children, including regulations where problems with business actors are possible," he said.

Through various prevention and education efforts intensified by the KPK, Kumbul claims that public awareness of anti-corruption continues to increase as evidenced in the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Behavior Index (IPAK) 2022 at 3.93.

"Our anti-corruption behavior index last year (2021) was 3.88, now it has increased to 3.93, meaning that the public has started to be aware of anti-corruption behavior in the middle of the line," he said.