KPK Will Evaluate Detention Center Management With The Directorate General Of PAS

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Directorate General of Corrections (Ditjen PAS) of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) will evaluate the management of state detention centers (rutan) to prevent any type of violation and behavior of corruption.

"We plan to then discuss with the authorities, namely the Directorate General of PAS, to then evaluate how the governance is actually and also the improvements in the future," said KPK Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron at the KPK Juang Building, Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Saturday, March 16.

Ghufron revealed that the evaluation will be carried out with relevant agencies because many KPK detention officers are employed civil servants (PNYD) from agencies that have the authority to manage detention centers.

He also said that cases of alleged illegal levies at the KPK branch detention center could be an example so that there would be no similar incidents in detention centers and prisons throughout Indonesia.

"We don't expect an incident like this to happen in other remand centers or maybe in other prisons," he said.

On Friday, March 15, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officially detained and named 15 of its employees as suspects in the extortion case at the KPK branch detention center.

"For the needs of the investigation process, the investigative team detained the suspects for the first 20 days, starting from March 15, 2024 to April 3, 2024 at the Polda Metro Jaya Detention Center," said Asep Guntur Rahayu.

The suspects are the current Head of the KPK Detention Center Achmad Fauzi, former KPK Detention Center officer Hengki, former Acting Head of the KPK Deden Rochendi Detention Center, and Ristanta KPK Detention Center officers.

In addition, KPK detention center officer Ari Rahman Hakim, KPK detention center officer Agung Nugroho, former KPK detention center officer Eri Angga Permana, KPK detention center officer Muhammad Ridwan, and KPK detention center officer Suharlan.

Furthermore, five other KPK officers, namely Suharlan, Ramadhan Ubaidillah, Mahdi Aris, Wardoyo, Muhammad Abduh, and Ricky Rachmawanto.

"The modes carried out by HK (Hengki) and friends of detainees include providing exclusive facilities in the form of accelerating the isolation period, services using cell phones and power banks, to information on inspections," said Asep.

The amount of money to get these services varies and is pegged from Rp. 300 thousand to Rp. 20 million which is then deposited in cash or through a holding bank account.

The amount of money received by the suspects also varies according to the position and duties distributed per month ranging from Rp. 500 thousand to Rp. 10 million.

In launching the action, the suspects used several terms or passwords, including floods, meaning inspection info, bird cages and corn feed, meaning money transactions, and bottles meaning as cellphones and cash.

The 2019-2023 time range, the amount of money received by the suspects is around Rp. 6.3 billion and will still be investigated and re-investigated for the flow of money and its use.

For their actions, the suspects were charged with Article 12 letter e of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) to 1 of the Criminal Code.