Admits Offering Employees Not Passing TWK To BUMN, KPK: This Could Be A Solution

KPK / VOI

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Cahya Harefa finally opened his voice regarding the offer to employees who do not meet the requirements (TMS) for the National Insight Test (TWK) to be distributed to SOEs. The condition is that the employee concerned must resign first.

According to him, this is done by the KPK solely to help employees who can no longer work to be transferred to other institutions besides the KPK.

"KPK intends to help these employees to be distributed to other institutions outside the KPK," said Cahya in a written statement to reporters, Tuesday, September 14.

He said the employees who would be assigned to work elsewhere would be adjusted according to their work experience and competencies. Moreover, said Cahya, many institutions need them.

"Therefore, this work distribution can be a solution as well as a positive mutualism cooperation," he said.

Cahya also said that the distribution of work for employees who did not pass the TWK was also in line with the long-established program, namely placing KPK personnel in other institutions or agencies as anti-corruption agents.

However, this distribution will of course follow the recruitment mechanisms and standards that have been set by the relevant agencies.

Moreover, Cahya said that there have been employees who have submitted application letters to be distributed to other institutions. According to him, this employee stated that he wanted to spread the anti-corruption values in the KPK to other places.

Thus, he asked the KPK's good intentions to channel employees who did not qualify could be interpreted positively. "This distribution of work certainly provides direct benefits for the employees concerned, new work institutions, as well as for the KPK itself to expand and strengthen anti-corruption nodes in various institutions," he said.

Previously reported, KPK employees who were declared ineligible (TMS) or did not pass the TWK as a condition for transferring employee status to State Civil Apparatus (ASN) were lured to move to another place. However, they were asked to first sign a letter of application for distribution to the KPK leadership.

A VOI source said this offer was a follow-up to a meeting of the KPK leadership and that several people had been offered by officials in the KPK structure. Especially, those who are not so loud.

Similarly, another source confirmed that several employees were offered to fill out a letter of application for distribution. However, it is not clear what the requirements and considerations for selecting certain employees will be because they will be offered via written message or telephone.

This was later confirmed by a senior KPK investigator, Novel Baswedan, who is now inactive. He said that several of his friends had been handed a letter of application for distribution, which must be accompanied by a statement of resignation from the KPK.

"Yes, some of my friends were contacted by KPK personnel who are believed to have knowledge of the KPK leadership and were asked to sign a letter of resignation and request that it be distributed to SOEs," Novel said in a written statement to reporters quoted on Tuesday, September 14.