533 Corruption Cases Handled Throughout 2021, ICW Gives D's To The KPK, AGO And Polri

ILLUSTRA TION BY VOI

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) stated that throughout 2021 law enforcement officers, namely the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Attorney General's Office, and the police had handled 533 corruption cases with the number of suspects in the thousands.

This is known from the results of monitoring conducted by ICW using the tabulation method of data from the media and the official website of law enforcement officers.

"This is a general finding from the trend of prosecution in 2021, there are 553 cases with 1,173 suspects with a potential state loss of Rp29.438 trillion," said ICW's Legal and Judicial Monitoring Division Coordinator, Lalola Easter when launching the Corruption Enforcement Trends Report which was broadcast on Friends' YouTube account. ICW, Monday, April 18th.

Lalola explained that of the hundreds of cases that were successfully handled by law enforcement officers, the potential value of bribes that occurred reached Rp. 212.5 billion.

Meanwhile, the potential for extortion is around Rp. 5.97 billion and money laundering is Rp. 20.97 billion. Thus, from all existing cases, the potential state losses amount to IDR 29.438 trillion.

"For general findings, from 533 cases there were 488 new cases or 90.8 percent of the total cases handled by law enforcement," he said.

"Then there were 38 case developments or 7.1 percent and 11 arrest operations or only 2.1 percent of the total cases," added the anti-corruption activist.

Even so, ICW still considers law enforcement officers to work to eradicate corruption as worthy of a D. Because only 24 percent of corruption cases have been successfully handled by the KPK, the Attorney General's Office, and the police.

This percentage, continued Lalola, is calculated from the number of cases monitored by ICW compared to the target for case action during 2021, then multiplied by 100 percent.

"Based on the method of calculation, at least for the quality of work or assessment of law enforcement officers or on corruption eradication work in the enforcement sector, it's only D," said Lalola.

"Because they only achieved the target of 24 percent of the target listed in the 2021 Fiscal Year DIPA," he concluded.