The Ethics Session Of Johanis Tanak Will Be Held By The KPK Council On Thursday Tomorrow

Member of the KPK Supervisory Board Albertina Ho at the KPK Jakarta Building (Wardhany Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Supervisory Board of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will hold a trial for alleged ethical violations of the Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Johanis Tanak on Thursday, July 27. This trial should have been held today, Monday, July 24 but was postponed. “Pak Johanis did not come. (The ethics trial, ed) was postponed to Thursday, July 27,” said KPK Supervisory Board member Albertina Ho to reporters, Monday, July 24. Albertina hopes that Johanis will come to the ethics trial. This is because the delay has been carried out according to his request. Johanis' reason for asking to postpone the ethics trial was because he was on leave. He returned to work on Wednesday, July 26. Previously, Johanis would be tried on ethics because he was suspected of communicating with the Director General of Mineral and Coal of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Idris Froyoto Sihite. The conversation between the two then spread on social media. There are several screenshots uploaded by the account containing discussions about work and there are sentences 'behind the screen'. Not only that, this account also revealed that there was a discussion about the Mining Business License (IUP). Responding to this, Johanis Tanak said the conversation took place before he was appointed as a leader. He admitted that he was already friends with Idris when he was still together at the Prosecutor's Office. Johanis also admitted that he did not know that his interlocutor had become the Acting Director General of Mineral and Coal because previously he served as Head of Legal Bureau at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

"I contacted him because I was just before retirement, how many months left for me to retire. If I continue to retire, what should I do, so how can there be new activities," said Tanak when contacted by VOI, Wednesday, April 12 evening.