Expelled From The Corruption Eradication Commission, Inactive Employees Clean Up Their Desks

Yudi Purnomo Harahap/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - A number of employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) who are inactive and will be expelled from the institution by the end of September are clearing the desks they have occupied for years.

One of the people who came and tidied up his desk and took his personal belongings home was the Chairman of the KPK Employee Forum, Yudi Purnomo Harahap.

He was one of 57 employees who were declared not to have passed the National Insight Test (TWK) and ended up being fired because they could not be appointed as State Civil Apparatus (ASN).

To reporters, Yudi said that since this morning he had been tidying up a number of things on his desk.

"I've been cleaning since this morning, I've cleaned up the existing files, documents. Then I also slider (destroy it, red), what's important is that I leave it to my friends," the investigator told reporters at the KPK's Red and White building. , Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Thursday, September 16.

Yudi admitted that he had met a number of his colleagues who are still at the KPK. In fact, he had come early so as not to meet them.

As a result, Yudi took the time to talk and joke with his friends before finally bringing home a brown cardboard box containing his personal belongings.

"Earlier, they were sad too, they couldn't say anything. Earlier we also had breakfast, later in the afternoon we also ate together while telling stories. Yes, the point is the atmosphere of friends is sad," he said.

He then showed a number of items that he would take home. The brown box contained books, a table tennis bet, several certificates, passports, and photos of his family.

Yudi admitted that he would definitely miss the KPK's Red and White Building as his office. Moreover, there are many memories in it during his eradication of corruption.

He also shared stories about how often he played table tennis with his friends so that he had a bet. Usually, Yudi and the employees play table tennis in their spare time, such as after conducting an examination.

Even so, he emphasized that his struggle to eradicate corruption would not end just because of his dismissal. He will continue to eradicate corruption in the future in his own way.

"For me, even though I am no longer at the KPK, I will definitely continue to fight in eradicating corruption, even though I am no longer an investigator," he said.

Not only Yudi, another non-active employee who also suffered the same fate, namely Tata Khoiriyah, also began to clean up his desk. This he uploaded on his Twitter account @tatakhoiriyah.

In his upload, Tata admitted that he was touched because his roommate put the words 'It is forbidden to clean the table'. In addition, on his desk, several other words were affixed.

"Since receiving SK 652, I have felt that this match will be long and tiring. It has been a long time since I decided to clean up a table that I have used for more than 4 years," he tweeted.

"Seeing our office friends look up at our desks, how come they suddenly become curvy," added Tata, accompanied by uploading three photos. Where the last photo shows him and a friend who will also be kicked out at the end of September, Tri Artining Putri is taking a selfie together.

It was previously reported that 57 employees who did not pass the TWK would be fired 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.

The KPK argues 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.

There were also employees who were declared unable to work at the KPK, including 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.