Asked About Distributing Employees Not Passing TWK To SOEs, Ghufron: Since When Did The KPK Become A Distributor Of Manpower?

Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Nurul Ghufron/DOK ANTARA

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron emphasized that his party did not distribute or transfer employees who did not pass the National Insight Test (TWK) and would be dismissed on September 30. Moreover, the institution is not a supplier of labor.

"It's not a transfer or distribution. Since when did the KPK become a labor supplier," he said at a press conference broadcast on the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Wednesday, August 15.

He said the employees would have to make a letter of application first. However, this is done because the KPK leadership is still thinking about its employees who have been dedicated in eradicating corruption.

"So it's not channeling, diverting, but this is the responsibility of the leadership to think about them and their families because of their dedication to the KPK and many services and we respect that," said Ghufron.

Similarly, KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri also said that employees who want to work elsewhere after being dismissed can make an application letter to the KPK leadership. However, he emphasized that there was no coercion for the dozens of employees.

"We take care of that application. If someone doesn't want it, it's an individual's personal right. It can't be forced, please have a choice," said the former Deputy for Enforcement of the KPK.

"We don't offer or ask, but we accommodate the wishes of employees if there are," added Firli.

Previously, 57 employees who were declared not to have passed the TWK would be dismissed at the end of September. This decision was taken because they cannot become State Civil Apparatus (ASN) according to the mandate of the KPK Law Number 19 of 2019.

It's just that their inability to become ASN is not due to laws and regulations such as Perkom KPK Number 1 of 2021 but because of the results of their assessment.

The KPK also ensures that employees have been given the same opportunity even if they have passed the age limit or have stopped being ASN before.

Meanwhile, the dismissal was carried out based on government regulation (PP) number 63 of 2005 concerning the Human Resources Management System of the KPK articles 18 and 19 paragraph (3) letter d with the reason for the dismissal due to organizational demands.

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 that 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 57 people.

Those who are no longer able to work at the KPK because they do not pass the TWK and are considered unable to be fostered through state defense education and national insight include senior KPK investigators Novel Baswedan and Ambarita Damanik, Chairman of the KPK Employee Forum Yudi Purnomo, KPK investigator Harun Al-Rasyid, and dozens of other names.