75 Officials Call For Leadership To Revoke Release Decision

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JAKARTA - Novel Baswedan and 74 KPK employees were released due to ineligibility in the assessment of the National Insight Test (TWK).

The latest President Joko Widodo said that the results of the TWK assessment did not necessarily become the basis for the dismissal of 75 ineligible employees. Jokowi's move was appreciated.

"President Joko Widodo's statement as head of state should be interpreted as an effort to rehabilitate the good name of 75 KPK employees who have been unfounded and should have been asked by the Leadership to hand over duties and responsibilities even very potentially dismissed because they are declared ineligible to become ASN," Sujanarko, a representative of 75 KPK employees, said in a statement, Monday, May 17.

Sujanarko said that Jokowi's statement should be followed up by the kpk leadership and the government.

Kpk leadership, said Sujanarko should revoke decree (SK) No. 652 of 2021 concerning the results of twk assessment which one of the points asks employees who are declared ineligible to submit their duties and responsibilities to their respective superiors.

"The chairman must revoke Decree No. 652 of 2021 as the demands have also been conveyed in this morning's objection letter to the Chairman, at the same time the Chairman must also rehabilitate the names of 75 KPK employees who have been harmed as a result of the Leadership's decisions and policies," sujanarko said.

Sujanarko who is also the Director of Inter-Commission and Agency Network Development (PJKAKI) KPK representing employees also asked the government to form an independent public investigation team. This team to evaluate and provide decisive action against the policies and actions of the leadership that released 75 employees.

"This includes evaluating and improving the system in the KPK that is needed to support more effective corruption eradication efforts as delivered by Mr. President," he said.

Such efforts, Sujanarko said, are important to ensure that the actions and policies of kpk leaders who harm employees are not repeated. In fact, he said kpk leaders should see employees of important assets of the organization.

"And focus on strengthening efforts to eradicate corruption," he said.

Previously, President Joko Widodo stated that kpk must have the best human resources and be highly committed in efforts to eradicate corruption.

Therefore, the transfer of kpk employee status to state civil apparatus (ASN) should be part of efforts to eradicate corruption more systematically.

According to Jokowi, the results of national insight tests on KPK employees should be input for anticorruption agency improvement measures both individually, and institutionally. Jokowi stressed that the twk assessment result is not the basis for dismissing 75 employees who were declared ineligible.

"It is not necessarily the basis for dismissing 75 KPK employees who were declared not to pass the test," Jokowi said in a statement via a video posted by the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube account.