608 Corruption Suspects Arrested By KPK In The Last Four Years

KPK year-end reflections (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has charged hundreds of corruption suspects in the past four years. This anti-graft agency said when achieving their performance for four years or during the leadership of Agus Rahardjo cs, which is about to end.

"Over the past four years, we have handled 608 suspects in various case modes," said KPK Deputy Chairman Saut Situmorang at the 2016-2019 KPK Performance Press Conference at the KPK Support Building, Jalan Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Tuesday, December 17.

During the past four years, Saut said the anti-graft agency had carried out 498 investigations, 539 investigations and 433 prosecutions. Meanwhile, at the prosecution level, 286 were legally binding (inckracht) and 383 were executed.

"Of all the functions we carry out, the enforcement function is the one that takes the most attention," he said.

In handling it, during the past four years the KPK has handled a number of large-scale corruption cases. Like the e-KTP corruption case, for example. From 2016 to 2019, the KPK continued to handle the mega corruption case. It was recorded that there were 12 suspects named by the KPK.

Meanwhile in 2019, the KPK carried out the development of an aircraft procurement case at PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) to the Crime of Money Laundering. This case, said Saut, did take longer. Given the many documents that have to be studied and this document is across the country. So, the KPK must collaborate with cross-country law enforcers.

Not getting there, in October 2019, the KPK also resolved the money laundering case that ensnared Tubagus Chaeri Wardana, who is a private party.

"The focus of the handling of this TPPU case is on tracing the flow of money as a form of KPK's effort to return corrupted assets to the state (asset recovery). Until now, the KPK confiscated a number of assets with a value of around Rp500 billion," said Saut.

Not satisfied with only capturing individual suspects, during the leadership period of Volume IV, this anti-graft institution began to ensnare corporations or companies. It was recorded that there were six companies or corporations that were snared by the KPK.

"Determination of the suspect was first carried out in 2017 by establishing PT DGI in the TPK for the Construction of the Udayana Education Hospital for the 2009-2011 Budget Year," he said.

operation to catch the hands of the KPK throughout 2016-2019 (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

The e-KTP megacorruption case has attracted the most attention of the public

Before Saut explained the number of cases handled by the KPK, KPK Chairman Agus Rahardjo explained that from the many cases investigated by the anti-graft agency, the one that caught the public's attention the most was the corruption case in the procurement of the e-KTP project which cost the state Rp.

"In the last four years, it turns out that the issue that has received the most attention is the e-KTP Corruption Case," said Agus when describing a number of cases that attracted attention but he did not specify why the case had received a lot of attention.

However, periodically, the KPK does attract public attention through reporting in the media. "We would like to thank all media partners who have always been partners with the Corruption Eradication Commission in carrying out their duties," said Agus.

In addition to the KTP-el case, Agus also explained that there was a change in the trend of public interest in the KPK. Mainly related to the revision of the KPK Law and changes in leadership. Both issues dominated public attention in September 2019.

Apart from that, Agus stated the leadership's commitment to eradicating corruption. Even though the leadership ends in a few days, the work to eradicate corruption will continue. Because, there are still a lot of homework that has not been completed and will not stop even if there is a change of position.

"We, who have become KPK leaders, will continue to fight against corruption even though we are not at the KPK. So, this is not over," he concluded.