Novel Baswedan Can't Believe There Are Employees Who Don't Pass The National Insight Test Ask To Be Distributed To Other Institutions

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JAKARTA - The senior investigator of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) who did not pass the National Insight Test (TWK) Assessment, Novel Baswedan admitted that he did not believe his inactive colleague asked to be channeled to other institutions to the KPK leadership.

This was conveyed to refute the statement by the Deputy Chair of the KPK, Nurul Ghufron, who said that an employee asked for help to be transferred to another agency or institution after being declared not to have passed the TWK and was deactivated.

"About what Mr. Nurul Ghufron said that there were employees who asked for help from the person concerned, sorry, I don't believe it", Novel told reporters, quoted on Wednesday, September 15.

Instead, he said that Ghufron had made a mistake with the intention of asking for help from an inactive employee. According to Novel, the employees who were eliminated through the TWK did not ask for other jobs but asked the KPK leadership not to be arbitrary.

"Even if there are employees who ask for help, perhaps the employee asks the leadership not to violate the law and act arbitrarily, which undermines the basic principles of integrity and harms the KPK", he said.

As previously reported, KPK Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron denied reports that any offers for employees who did not pass the National Insight Test (TWK) were distributed to SOEs as long as they resigned first.

"None of us has asked for resignations and other things", said Ghufron to reporters, Tuesday, September 14.

He said he did not know anything about the existence of distribution forms such as those circulating among the non-active employees and again mentioned that it was precisely the dozens of employees who needed the assistance of the KPK leadership.

"The form (form, ed) I don't know. If it's offered, it's not offered. They said that, yes, they asked why the leadership didn't think about them, that's it", said Ghufron

Moreover, not all employees who did not qualify were hard to resist, but there were those who tried to make a living. "It means that those who are not qualified have various levels, some are against it, then some are asking for help", explained Ghufron.

"Maybe someone asked for help, they might have the initiative among themselves, that's possible", he added.

For information, as many as 75 KPK employees were initially declared unsuccessful or did not meet the requirements in the TWK assessment process as a condition for employee status transfer. Of this number, 24 of them can be trained, although recently only 18 have participated in the training for State Defense and National Insight.

So the total number of employees who are considered unable to be trained and do not want to carry out training because their request for clarity on the results of the TWK has not been given is 56 people. Later, tens of these people will be fired at the end of October according to the implementation limit of the transfer of status.