57 KPK Employees Fired Without Severance Pay, Giri Suprapdiono: Factory Workers Only Get Severance Pay

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JAKARTA - Director of Socialization and Anti-Corruption Campaign of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Giri Suprapdiono said that he and 56 employees who were fired as a result of the National Insight Test Assessment (TWK) would not receive severance pay or benefits.

According to him, employees will only receive old-age benefits and BPJS disbursement which has been previously deducted from their salaries. This was conveyed through a thread on his Twitter account, @girisuprapdiono.

"The 57 KPK employees who were fired were without severance pay and no pension at all. But the decree to dismiss the chairman of the KPK reads as if they are providing benefits, even though it is our own savings in the form of old-age benefits and BPJS," wrote Giri quoted on Monday, September 20. .

He then compared his fate and that of dozens of other KPK employees who will be expelled by the end of September with factory workers. Giri said that factory workers who were fired from their jobs only received severance pay.

He also mentioned that dozens of employees who had fought to eradicate corruption were now being dumped like trash. "Even though they have been instrumental in saving state money from corruptors, thieves, hundreds of trillions," said Giri.

Not only that, the gesture to provide old-age benefits and distribute them to SOEs is also considered a trick by the KPK leaders. So, it must continue to be fought.

"We cannot tolerate tyranny and betrayal in eradicating corruption. We must fight it," he said.

Furthermore, Giri believes that sustenance has been arranged. He also believes that employees can stay alive in various ways, such as raising catfish, selling, as well as writing books and trading.

Giri believes that this is a better way to earn a living than playing cases at the KPK, as was done by a former investigator, Stepanus Robin Pattuju, who became a case broker.

"We are always happy to pick up fortune. God has arranged it with precision. Raising catfish, selling fried dumplings, baking cakes, raising goats, farming, writing books, teaching, trading...better for us than pawning ourselves, like prostitution in Tanjung Balai," he said.

It was previously reported that 57 employees were declared unable to work at the KPK because they could not become ASN according to the mandate of the KPK Law Number 19 of 2019 as of the end of September. The employees 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.

The anti-corruption commission argued that their inability to become ASN was not due to laws and regulations such as Perkom KPK Number 1 of 2021, but because of the results of their assessment.

Not only that, the KPK also ensures that employees have been given the same opportunities even if they have passed the age limit or have stopped being ASN.

However, the decision caused a polemic considering the discovery of a number of maladministration and abuse of authority in the TWK process by the Indonesian Ombudsman. Not only that, Komnas HAM also found violations of 11 employees' rights.

So, this is a polemic. Moreover, the KPK and the State Civil Service Agency (BKN) do not want to follow up on corrective actions or recommendations issued by the Indonesian Ombudsman and Komnas HAM, respectively.