KPK Secretary General Says That Brigadier General Endar's Dismissal Should Be Taken Care Of By Court

Brigadier General Endar Priantoro (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Cahya H. Harefa said that the dismissal of Brigadier General Endar Priantoro as Director of Investigation should be handled by the State Administrative Court (PTUN). If you follow the legislation, the Ombudsman is considered unauthorized.

"The settlement of this problem is guided by the law on personnel administration or government administration in accordance with Law Number 30 of 2014 concerning Government Administration, which leads to the State Administrative Court (PTUN) and not to the Ombudsman," said Cahya in a written statement, Tuesday, May 30.

Cahya said that the entire process of recruitment, career development to retirement was the internal affairs of the anti-corruption commission. "That is the case with the process of dismissing Endar Priantoro as Director of Investigation," he said.

"(This, red) is the realm of HR management at the KPK, not public service," continued Cahya.

Because of this, the KPK felt that it could not comply with the Ombudsman's request. "Because the substance to be clarified is not included in the realm of public services which is the authority of the ombudsman," said Cahya.

The Ombudsman previously assessed that the KPK was uncooperative when asked for information regarding alleged maladministration in the removal of Brigadier General Endar Priantoro as Director of Investigation. In fact, this institution has sent letters twice addressed to KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri and KPK Secretary General Cahya H. Harefa.

"Instead of getting answers and coming to the Ombudsman, on May 22 we received a letter whose contents were not a clarification of the questions we submitted, but related to a number of things that surprised us at the Ombudsman," said Ombudsman member Robert Na Endi Jaweng.

This surprise arose because the letter actually questioned the authority of the Ombudsman. Robert regretted that answer because they had actually given the KPK time.

"This is the same as those concerned questioning the president and the DPR who formed the Ombudsman Law. We are working not because of our own will, but because of the state's mandate, there are orders from the law drafted by the president and the DPR," he said.