The National Police Chief's Plan To Form A Corruption Eradication Unit Has Been 'Parked' On Jokowi's Desk

National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo gave a press statement regarding the 2024 Police Rapim in Jakarta, Thursday (29/2/2024). ANTARA/Laily Rahmawaty

National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo said the proposed formation of the Corruption Eradication Corps or Kortas Corruption was already at President Joko Widodo's desk. The formation of Kortas Corruption is one of the plans of the National Police Chief in an effort to eradicate corruption "The development of Kortas Corruption has now also arrived at the president's desk and is going through a process of harmonizing," Sigit told reporters, Thursday, February 29. In his plan, Sigit had conveyed that later the Directorate of Corruption Crimes (Ditipidkor) would be developed into Kortas. "In the future, we are currently making changes to Dittipikor. We will become Kortas Corruption," said the National Police Chief. Later, Kortas Corruption will be filled with several divisions or deputies. Starting from prevention to prosecution of corruption. "The Corruption Eradication Directorate will be raised to become a higher organization. Those are the deputies, the deputy for prosecution, the deputy for prevention, the deputy for inter-institutional cooperation, then there is one more deputy," said Sigit.

Some of the reasons behind this mining plan. One of them is the increasing level of corruption.