Bhayangkara Corps Officials Competing For Structural Seats In KPK

KPK Building (Syamsul Ma'arif / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is looking for the right person to hold several structural positions such as Deputy for Enforcement, Head of Legal Bureau (Kabiro), Director of Investigation. Three generals from the police are currently fighting over these positions.

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) saw the abuse of authority from KPK chairman Firli Bahuri to give structural seats to his alma mater from the Bhayangkara Corps. ICW requested that this selection be carefully reviewed.

The three candidate candidates who will compete for structural seats in the KPK include Karyoto, the Deputy Chief of Regional Police of Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY), the Head of Research and Development of the Indonesian National Police, Agus Nugroho, and finally Firli's former subordinate when he was the South Sumatra Regional Police Chief, Rudi Setiawan.

"From the start, the KPK has never publicly announced who registered and what the results of each selection process were," said ICW researcher Wana Alamsyah, in a written statement, Tuesday, April 7.

Despite asking for public participation to oversee this selection of positions, in fact the KPK did not pay attention to suggestions from the public, including anti-corruption activists. Wana asked the anti-graft agency to repeat the selection process for Deputy for Enforcement. The reason was, because during the election, the KPK was not open and even had the potential to violate the provisions contained in Article 5 of the KPK Law, especially on the principles of openness and accountability.

Moreover, Article 17 of the Law does not mention that job selection is exempt from information, so closing information about the job selection process is an action that has no urgency at all. "So the KPK should be able to rethink the continuation of this selection process," said Wana.

Given that the selection process for structural positions at the KPK was carried out when the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading in Indonesia. So, it is not impossible, if this selection process is still carried out, it will have the potential to cause problems in the future.

Separately, Plt. KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement Ali Fikri said all candidates who took the competency test and assessment were conducted by an independent and professional third party. "The interview test and the delivery of the vision and mission to eradicate corruption are carried out directly by the KPK Leadership, Secretary General, and Karo HR," Ali said in a written statement quoted by VOI.

Until now, the candidate who passed the competency test and assessment stage as the Head of the KPK Legal Bureau is the Functional Prosecutor in the Development Division of the Attorney General's Office, namely Ahmad Burhanudin, the Main Functional of the KPK, Indra Mantong Batti, Plt. Karo Hukum / Head of Litigation and Nonlitigation Division of KPK, Efi Laela Kholis and one name from the police is Anwar Effendi. Before serving as Irbid Jemen SDM 1 ITwil 2 Itwarsum Polri, Anwar is known to have served as the Head of Makassar Police.

Meanwhile, four people passed as candidates for KPK Investigation Director. Two people came from the police, namely Nazirwan Adji Wibowo, who now serves as the Deputy Secretary of the National Police and Head of Sub-Directorate II of the General Crime Directorate of Bareskrim Polri, Endar Priantoro. While the other two people are Plt. KPK Investigation Director Iguh Sipurba and Kasatgas XIII of the KPK Investigation Directorate Arief Yulian Miftach.

He further hopes that the community can play an active role in guarding and providing input on the track records of structural official candidates in the anti-graft agency. "So that later on, structural officials with integrity and professional will be elected," closed Ali.