It Is Impossible To Eradicate White Collar Crime With The Fear Of Being Mutated

Corruption Eradication Commission Headquarters in Rasuna Said, South Jakarta (Syamsul Ma'arif / VOI)

JAKARTA - Polemics related to the new rules of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) which are regulated in Law 19/2019 continue to occur. This law is considered to cause changes in the anti-graft body.

One of the changes that will be experienced by all KPK employees is the matter of changing their employment status to become the state civil apparatus (ASN). This is considered to have the risk of making them easy to transfer at any time.

This change in employment status occurs because Article 24 paragraph 2 of the new Corruption Eradication Commission Law states that KPK employees are members of the professional corps of state civil servants (ASN) of the Republic of Indonesia in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations.

KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah, who was interviewed by VOI on Wednesday, November 20, said that his agency would follow all the regulations that have been set. Including the matter of transfer of employment status. Moreover, this anti-graft agency has two years to make the transition.

However, this former anti-corruption activist said that KPK employees could no longer be independent after they became ASN. This is because they can be rotated, transferred, or transferred to another agency when they are facing a case involving officials or influential people.

"Imagine if the investigator who is investigating is ASN, who at the same time has the risk of being easily shifted or his promotion postponed," said Febri when met at the KPK's Red and White House, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta.

Febri also emphasized that the resolution of this white collar crime should not be carried out by people in a vulnerable position. Given, those who commit corruption crimes are usually people who are in power.

So that in the future, the personnel transition that is carried out must be carefully monitored so that it does not interfere with the independence of KPK employees. Because, it is not impossible for the transfer to be done subjectively. Moreover, the process of rotation, transfer, or transfer of positions and agencies will be regulated by the KemenPAR-RB which is responsible for the state civil apparatus.

"Is it possible, efforts to handle corruption cases with extraordinary challenges will be carried out by people who are in a vulnerable position? It is impossible. It is a danger for investigators, it is dangerous for the disclosure of the case," he said.

Meanwhile, regarding the system used when transferring employee status, from the last meeting between the KPK and KemenPAR-RB, Febri said the conversion system was the most possible transfer system.

Moreover, all this time KPK employees had taken the test before they worked at the anti-corruption agency. "For the last communication (with MenPAN-RB), what we received was a conversion. Because the KPK employees when they entered were also tested," he said.

Previously, the Minister for Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (MenPAN-RB) Tjahjo Kumolo said that his party had met with KPK Secretary General Cahya Hardianto Harefa to discuss the transfer of status for anti-corruption agency employees.

It's just that, Tjahjo said the concept of this transition was not yet mature. So that he has not reported the transition process to President Joko Widodo.

"I haven't, haven't reported it yet. But I've already met with my friends at the KPK. It's not time for me to tell you, so that you can do it first," he said at the Presidential Palace, Central Jakarta.

Tjahjo also had time to say, so ASN is actually better than being a KPK employee because they can serve in any ministry. "Actually, with friends (KPK) entering ASN, he is not a KPK employee for life. He can go to the Ministry of Home Affairs, can go to KemenPAN-RB, can go anywhere," he concluded.