KPK Employees Reveal Weird Questions In TWK, Including Choose Al-Qur'an Or Pancasila

Benedict Siumlala Martin, functional employee at the Directorate of Community Participation Development at the KPK (Photo: VOI)

JAKARTA - The discrepancy in the National Insight Test Assessment (TWK) process that caused 75 employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to fail to pass continues to be revealed. One of them, strange questions arise such as choosing the Qur'an or Pancasila.

This was conveyed by Benedict Siumlala Martin who is a functional employee at the Directorate of Community Participation Development of the KPK. He was included in the 75 employees who were declared ineligible.

He said that during the interview process one of his colleagues was asked to choose between the Qur'an and Pancasila. He found this out after discussing it with his colleagues.

"There were some quite strange questions, one of the friends was even asked to choose, do you want to choose the Koran or Pancasila," said Beni when met by VOI at the ACLC KPK Building, Jalan Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, Monday, 31 last May.

This question is considered odd, because these two things cannot be chosen just like that. In addition, Beni thinks that religion and Pancasila can actually be done together.

"It's something that can't actually be chosen, right. I mean, it can just run at the same time and it doesn't fit, that's what to choose," he said.

Not only that, the assessors also asked about the rejection of Firli Bahuri in 2019 by a number of KPK employees. Beni was one of the employees who was asked this during the interview process and he did not cover it up.

"Yes, I will answer as it is, that in 2019 I participated in rejecting Firli Bahuri to become a KPK Commissioner," he said.

"Why did I refuse? Because at that time there were incidents of ethical violations committed by Firli Bahuri such as meeting litigants, and several other violations at the KPK that were quite serious ethical violations committed by Firli Bahuri," added Beni.

Furthermore, the assessors also asked Beni if he participated in demonstrations against the revision of the KPK Law in 2019. "So it's like you already know everything about me, even before the interview," he said.

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

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

"There is also a question, the KPK leadership does not know about TWK's question? Indeed, we do not know and do not want to know," said Ghufron at a press conference at the KPK Merah Putih 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 the TWK to the State Civil Service Agency (BKN) and the 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.

For information, the 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 Forum who is also an investigator Yudi Purnomo, Director of Socialization and Anti-Corruption Campaign Giri Suprapdiono, Head of the KPK Task Force Harun Al-Rasyid, and Director of PJKAKI Sujarnarko were declared ineligible (TMS). Next, two other employees did not attend the interview test.