Police Inquirer And Investigators Reportedly Chaotic After Brigadier General Endar Was Removed, KPK: Wrong!

Brigadier General Endar Priantoro showed a letter of dismissal from the position of Director of KPK Investigation at the C1 KPK Building, Jakarta, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (ANTARA-Muhammad Adimaja)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Johanis Tanak denied that investigators from the National Police were not working after Brigadier General Endar Priantoro was removed as Director of Investigation. He said the information circulating was wrong and baseless.

"The information was wrong," Johanis told reporters, Monday, April 17.

Johanis said that the enforcement efforts are currently being strengthened. The proof is that a number of hand-catching operations (OTT) have been carried out.

The KPK has recently been intensively carrying out silent operations. At least, there are three activities that have been carried out starting from OTT Meranti Regent M. Adil; OTT at the Directorate General of Railways at the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub); to OTT Mayor of Bandung Yana Mulyana regarding allegations of bribery in the procurement of CCTV and the Bandung Smart City internet network.

"This illustrates that law enforcement by the Corruption Eradication Commission is now getting higher," he said.

Furthermore, Johanis also spoke out about the issue of the empty investigator and investigator rooms due to boycotting the enforcement efforts. According to him, this issue is misguided and baseless.

He also said that this lie could degrade the work of eradicating corruption. "That's misguided. There could be someone who is just doing it for fun and doesn't know that what they are doing (spreading hoaxes, ed) can have a bad impact," he said.

Johanis said that the room might be empty because investigators and investigators were carrying out activities. Apart from working, it could be that at that time they were resting or carrying out worship.

"Because it was Friday, Muslim friends went for Friday prayers while Christians went to worship which was held on Friday afternoon by inviting a priest or priest," he said.

"So if Muslim friends go to pray and Christians worship, apart from that other people who are not fasting go to lunch. In that case, the workspace must be empty," added Tanak.

Previously, Endar was honorably discharged on March 31 after he was returned to the National Police. It's just that the Bhayangkara Corps member was asked to return to the KPK according to the order of the National Police Chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo.

As a result of this incident, he reported KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri and KPK Secretary General Cahya H. Harefa to the KPK Supervisory Board. Apart from that, Endar also reported other alleged violations, such as the leaking of documents investigating alleged corruption at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, to being forced to produce documents even though a case had not been filed or exposed.