KPK Admits Its Enforcement Task Force Overloaded On Corruption Cases: Hopefully We Are Healthy And Not Affected By COVID-19

KPK Building. (Irfan Meidianto/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) admits that its employees, especially those in the field of prosecuting work overload. The reason is that they are currently trying to resolve carry-over cases or those inherited by the KPK leadership in the previous period.

"We also convey to our colleagues that each task force is overloaded with carryover," said KPK Deputy for Enforcement and Execution Karyoto in a press conference broadcast on the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Saturday, September 4.

He hoped that the entire team at the deputy for prosecution would remain healthy and no one else was exposed to COVID-19 so that investigations into suspected corruption cases could proceed more quickly.

"Hopefully we are healthy and no one gets COVID again and can run faster," he said.

Previously reported, Deputy Chairperson of the Corruption Eradication Commission Alexander Marwata also had time to vent that his institution currently lacks people to handle cases of the alleged homicide. He said it would take hundreds of people to make the anti-corruption commission's work more ferocious.

"We calculate that there is still a shortage of around 400 human resources for investigators and investigators. I myself said during the fit and proper test that there should be more investigators than investigators," Alex said in a press conference quoted on Wednesday, August 25.

According to him, at this time the KPK is indeed difficult to take action because the number of human resources is limited and many corruption cases take a long time to process. This, said Alex, occurs because investigators and investigators at the KPK often hold more than one case.

"We can't boost this year to 200 cases, we're investigating. How many investigators are there," he said.

This reason then makes the KPK do more case building to investigate corruption cases. However, Alex ensures that this will not hinder the Hand Capture Operation (OTT), which has been a scourge for perpetrators of rioting because its implementation is also often assisted by other units.

"After all, since many procurements of goods and services can be carried out with open investigations and public reports. This includes development efforts that we are doing," he said.