KPK Leadership Term Sued Nurul Ghufron To MK

Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron has sued his term of office from four to five years. The lawsuit was submitted to the Constitutional Court (MK) since early November 2022. "Legal statements as stated in Article 7 of the 1945 Constitution (Bawaslu) the period of government in Indonesia is five years. So it should be that all periodization of the government period is five years," Ghufron told reporters, Tuesday, May 16. Ghufron gave an example of the leadership of non-ministerial agencies such as the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), the General Election Commission (KPU), and the Judicial Commission (KY) could serve for five years. So, it would be unfair if the head of the anti-corruption commission only served four years. "It would violate the principle of justice as article 27 and Article 28D of the 1945 Constitution (inconstitutional) if it was not corrected or equated," he said. Not there, Ghufron also said that a four-year term for the KPK leadership made it difficult for efforts to eradicate corruption. Moreover, the evaluation of the performance of the previous leadership was considered unsynchronizable. "The periodization of national development planning as in which Law 25/2004 is RPJPN 25 years, this five-year RPJMN will be subject to monitoring planning and evaluation of development, then if the four-year corruption eradication program would be difficult and not synchronize the results of its corruption eradication performance," he explained.

This lawsuit, called Ghufron, has been running for a long time at the Constitutional Court. The DPR, experts, and representatives of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) have been questioned. "Currently we are waiting for the reading of the decision. We do not know when the decision will be read out waiting for the schedule from the MK's clerkship," concluded Ghufron.