The Ombudsman Finds TWK Maladministration Novel Baswedan Et Al, The KPK Board Lets Go

Chairman of the KPK Supervisory Board Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean (Photo: Screenshot of Youtube @Najwa Shihab)

JAKARTA - The Supervisory Board of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) admits that it does not want to interfere with the findings of maladministration in the National Insight Test Assessment (TWK) process that has been submitted by the Indonesian Ombudsman. They think this is none of their business.

"We don't interfere in this matter and we don't know if the leadership will follow up. We don't know," said Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, chairman of the KPK Supervisory Board, in a press conference broadcast online, Friday, July 23.

The findings of the Indonesian Ombudsman, he continued, are the whole business of the KPK leadership. So, they let go and invited Firli Bahuri et al to follow up.

"That's up to the leadership and we've never read the verdict," said Tumpak.

Previously, as many as 75 KPK employees, including Novel Baswedan, who were declared not to have passed the TWK as a condition for changing their employee status to State Civil Apparatus, reported their fate to a number of institutions such as Komnas HAM and the Indonesian Ombudsman. This report was made because they suspected that there was a violation that occurred in the test.

After examining a number of parties, including the Deputy Chairman of the KPK, Nurul Ghufron, the Indonesian Ombudsman then announced his findings on Wednesday, July 21 yesterday. They said there was maladministration from the planning process to the appointment of employees as ASN.

One of the serious maladministration announced by the Ombudsman is related to changing the date or back date of the memorandum of understanding for the procurement of goods and services through self-management and self-management contracts in the implementation of the TWK of KPK employees. This memorandum of understanding was signed by the KPK and the State Civil Service Agency (BKN).