Mahfud's Step Regarding Corruption Hunting Team Assessed Against Jokowi's Spirit

Menko Polhukam Mahfud MD (Angga Nugraha / VOi)

JAKARTA - The discourse of the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD to reactivate the corruptor hunting team is considered to be against the spirit of President Joko Widodo. The spirit of downsizing state institutions.

Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nawawi Pomolango said the current President's spirit is to downsize or dissolve government institutions in the near future. Not forming a new institution like the discourse of the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.

"Of course it is contrary to the spirit of 'downsizing' agencies and commissions that the government is promoting," said Nawawi in a short message to journalists, Sunday, July 19.

According to Nawawi, Mahfud as the Coordinating Minister in charge of political, legal and security affairs builds more coordination among law enforcers. Not taking care of anything else. "And not by 'regenerating' a new team," he said.

Meanwhile, President Joko Widodo previously said that 18 institutions will be dissolved in the near future. However, he did not elaborate on which institutions would be dissolved.

This step was taken to reduce the burden on the state budget amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This is because the costs originally budgeted for this unproductive institution can be diverted to more important matters.

By streamlining this institution, it is hoped that the government will accelerate its steps in handling this outbreak. Especially in the future global competition, countries that are fast will beat countries that are slow to work.

Even though the criticism did not only come from the Deputy Chairman of the KPK, Nawawi Pomolongo, Mahfud, some time ago, remained in his position. Namely forming a corrupt hunting team.