More Radical And Taliban Issues In KPK, Febri Diansyah: Still Valid?

Febri Diansyah (Photo: Mahesa ARK / VOI)

JAKARTA - Former Spokesperson for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Febri Diansyah spoke up about the old issues related to the Taliban and radicalism that have attacked the anti-corruption commission.

He considered that this issue arose because currently the KPK was investigating a number of large cases, ranging from bribery for the provision of COVID-19 social assistance to bribes for export of fries or lobster seeds.

"The issue of the Taliban with the 2019 video before the student demonstration was raised again. In line with the handling of the COVID-19 Social Assistance corruption case," Febri was quoted by VOI in his Twitter account @febridiansyah, Monday, January 25.

The Taliban video in question was uploaded by the Twitter account @mochamadarip on Saturday, January 23. In the video, Febri is a person who has been reported as a member of the KPK Taliban and is said to be training students to carry out anarchist actions when protesting against the revision of the 2019 KPK Law.

"What's wrong, are you still selling the Taliban issue at the KPK?" said the anti-corruption activist in response to the circulating video. Febri suspects that the Taliban issue will eventually target KPK senior investigator Novel Baswedan.

"And maybe it is linked to investigators who are handling major corruption cases. For example, the corruption case or the Bansos COVID-19 corruption that is being handled by the KPK," he said.

Furthermore, he hopes that all parties will keep the anti-graft commission. Moreover, currently, the KPK is working to handle corruption cases.

In addition, Febri also reminded a number of homework that must be completed by the KPK. Starting from looking for fugitives for former PDI-P candidate Harun Masiku to a number of large cases such as BLBI that must be resolved.

"Our task is to remind them. There is also a BLBI case with a state loss of Rp. 4.58 trillion. 2 suspects are still DPOs. Announcement of the suspects will be in June 2019 and soon 2 years," he said.

"According to the revised KPK Law, after 2 years there is a chance that SP3 corruption cases or investigations will be terminated. Will the BLBI be subject to SP3?" he added.

The KPK investigator Novel Baswedan has already responded to the issue of the Taliban. According to him, this issue is often used by corrupt supporters whose interests are disturbed by the corruption investigation work carried out by their institutions.

"The radical-Taliban issue has often been used by supporters of corruptors, even though it is clear that this is a false and fabricated issue," Novel said to reporters.

He said that this issue was often used by corrupt supporters to attack the KPK and this always happened when the anti-corruption commission was investigating corruption cases.