Asked About TWK's Odd Questions, KPK Deputy Chairman: We Don't Know And Don't Want To Know

Deputy Chairman of KPK Nurul Ghufron (Wardhany Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron emphasized that his party did not know about the questions asked by the assessors in the National Insight Test Assessment (TWK).

Not only that, Ghufron said the five KPK leaders did not want to know about the questions being asked of their employees.

"There are also questions, the KPK leadership does not know the TWK question? Indeed, we do not know and do not want to know," said Ghufron in a press conference at the Red and White KPK building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Thursday, May 27.

He emphasized that this step was taken as a form of maintaining objectivity. Moreover, the KPK has handed over the implementation of TWK to the State Civil Service Agency (BKN) and KemenPANRB.

The reason is that the KPK does not have the ability to test its employees in the process of transferring employment status as mandated by Law Number 19 of 2019.

"We don't have the means or tools, so we coordinate with BKN and KemenPANRB," he said. Ghufron ensured that the implementation of TWK for thousands of KPK employees was in accordance with the existing legal basis. According to him, the test that did not pass was followed by 75 KPK employees in accordance with Government Regulation Number 41 of 2021.

Where in Article 3 there is a condition that states that employees who will transfer status are permanent or non-permanent employees and must be loyal to Pancasila, NKRI, and legitimate government.

"So to ensure and prove our requirements we coordinate with BKN and KemenPANRB. We formulate the regulations then from PP 41/2020 to Perkom 1/2021," he said.

For this reason, the leaders did not want to know what the assessors were asking. "It's nothing, this is to ensure objectivity," said Ghufron.

"If we enter, we lose objectivity as if we were intervening about the material or method. That's the general framework," he added.

Previously reported, the KPK has held a coordination meeting to discuss the fate of 75 employees who failed the National Insight Assessment (TWK) and were disabled. Apart from the KPK and the National Civil Service Agency (BKN), this meeting was also attended by the Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna Laoly and MenPANRB Tjahjo Kumolo.

As a result, 51 KPK employees out of a total of 75 employees who did not pass TWK were confirmed to be fired from their jobs as of 1 November. While 24 employees are still possible for guidance.

The National Insight Test (TWK) was attended by 1,351 KPK employees. Of these, 1,274 people were declared eligible.

Meanwhile, 75 employees including Novel Baswedan, Chairman of the KPK Employee Council who is also investigator Yudi Purnomo, Director of Anti-Corruption Socialization and Campaign Giri Suprapdiono, KPK Head of Task Force Harun Al-Rasyid, and Director of PJKAKI Sujarnarko were declared ineligible (TMS). Next, two other employees did not attend the interview test.