18 KPK Employees Not Passing TWK Willing To Participate In National Defense Training

Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Nurul Gufron (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron said 18 of his employees who did not pass the National Insight Test (TWK) were willing to take a quick education (training) to defend the state and national insight.

These dozen people are part of the 24 employees who can be saved and can be appointed as State Civil Apparatus (ASN) even though they did not pass the TWK.

"So far, 18 people have expressed their willingness to take part in the state defense training," Ghufron told reporters quoted on Wednesday, July 21.

As for other employees, he said, the KPK left the decision to each individual. However, what is certain is that this training for state defense and national insight is the right of dozens of employees to be appointed as ASN.

"We invite employees to exercise their rights or not. Because the 24 employees who are still given the opportunity to attend training are the result of the KPK's struggle to be given the opportunity as employees," said Ghufron.

It was previously reported that as many as 24 KPK employees underwent the training activity on Tuesday, July 20, for 30 days. The program, place, location and materials in the implementation of the National Defense and National Insight training are planned by the Indonesian Ministry of Defense (Kemenhan).

For information, in the process of transitioning KPK employees to ASN there were 75 people who were declared failed because they did not pass the TWK.

Those who did not qualify included senior investigator Novel Baswedan, Chairman of the KPK Employee Forum who is also investigator Yudi Purnomo, Director of Socialization and Anti-Corruption Campaign Giri Suprapdiono, Head of the KPK Task Force Harun Al-Rasyid as well as a number of other investigators and investigators.

This then raises the issue of targeting these employees, especially those who handle high-profile corruption cases.

Furthermore, those who did not pass were deactivated so that they could not carry out their duties as KPK employees. However, the KPK recently said it would fire 51 of their 75 employees who were declared unsuccessful because they could not be trained.