Sandiaga Uno Asked The KPK To Guard The Kemenparekraf Program So It Would Not Be Corrupted

Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Uno asked the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to oversee the program in his ministry to prevent corrupt practices.

Sandiaga conveyed this request during a meeting with KPK leaders and staff at the Red and White KPK building, Jalan Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta.

"We convey our desire to be able to increase the assistance program by the KPK to Kemparekraf for 2021. We will focus on our programs that are right on target and on time," Sandiaga said after the meeting, Thursday, January 21.

Sandiaga said that the tourism sector and the creative economy support around 34 million people. However, this sector is one of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the assistance provided by the KPK, Kemparekraf will step on the gas to carry out a number of programs to help people in the tourism sector and the creative economy so they can survive amid the pandemic.

"We are gaspol in carrying out programs that help the public, of course, with good governance and good governance and of course maintaining the integrity of transparency, capability and awareness," he said.

Sandi said that the KPK leadership also asked his party to initiate anti-corruption education in colleges under Kemparekraf. This request was then greeted positively because it was considered to be able to build an anti-corruption culture in the tourism sector and the creative economy.

"To present a sector that is truly free of corruption, clean society and also increase competitiveness," he said.

Regarding the request for assistance made by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, KPK Deputy Chair Lili Pintauli Siregar confirmed that her agency would do this.

The KPK, he said, would supervise and monitor important projects at the Kemparekraf to prevent corruption. This was done because the anti-graft commission did not want any more ministries to fall into corruption cases again.

"Assistance in the sense of things that can prevent the minister and all his staff from unwanted things so that he can become an example for several cases yesterday," he concluded.