No Evidence Of Violation When TWK Was The Cause Of Firli Bahuri Et Al Escaped From The Ethics Trial

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri and four of his deputies have escaped an ethics trial related to alleged violations during the National Insight Test (TWK) Assessment process. The KPK Supervisory Board admitted that they did not find any evidence of violations in the process.

This decision was taken after Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean et al examined 11 witnesses as well as 5 reported and 42 pieces of evidence related to the process of transferring the employee status.

"The supervisory board in deliberation and consensus concluded that all allegations of violations of the code of ethics and code of conduct allegedly committed by the KPK leadership as submitted in the complaint letter to the council were insufficient evidence so that they did not meet the requirements to proceed to the ethics trial," said the chairman of the Tumpak Supervisory Board, Hatorangan Panggabean. in a press conference, Friday, July 23.

The KPK Supervisory Board at that time also outlined a number of things. One of them is Firli's suspicion of adding articles related to TWK as reported by dozens of employees who did not qualify and one of them was Novel Baswedan.

Member of the KPK Council, Harjono, said that there were no findings that showed evidence regarding the addition of articles proposed by KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri at the leadership meeting on January 25, 2021. "It is not true that the allegation of the National Insight Test Article is an article added by Firli Bahuri's brother in the meeting," he said. .

Thus, based on these considerations, the alleged violation of the code of ethics and code of conduct as reported to have violated the Integrity Value of Article 4 Paragraph 1 letter a of the Dewas Regulation Number 2 of 2020 is declared insufficient evidence.

The supervisory board also found no evidence that the KPK leadership did not provide information related to TWK, including if there were employees who failed. The KPK leadership is considered to have socialized and informed employees about the implementation of the TWK including its consequences.

The decision of the supervisory board not to proceed with the alleged violation to the ethics trial was then responded to by representatives of 75 employees who did not pass the TWK, Rizka Anung Nata. He called the decision of Tumpak Hatorangan et al made it up.

"Insufficient evidence is a very far-fetched reason. Because the Supervisory Board has full authority to look for evidence, from the preliminary data that we submitted during the complaint," said Rizka Anung in a written statement to reporters.

Not only that, he mentioned that the results of the KPK Supervisory Board's examination were different from the results submitted by the Indonesian Ombudsman on Wednesday, July 22 yesterday. The reason is that the data and evidence submitted by dozens of employees are not different.

Rizka then suspected that the difference could occur because the Indonesian Ombudsman had more intention and willingness to reveal violations that occurred in the process of transferring the status of KPK employees. This is different from the attitude of the supervisory board which is more passive and prefers to be a lawyer for the KPK leadership.

"The Supervisory Board is very passive and does not try to dig deeper into information, even in conducting the examination of the whistleblower, we feel that Dewas is more visible as a lawyer who defends the violations committed by the leadership as the reported party," he said.

Disappointment that led to concern was also conveyed by senior investigator Novel Baswedan. He was worried that the KPK Supervisory Board was tricked by Firli Bahuri et al when conducting an investigation regarding alleged ethical violations related to the TWK process.

"I also think that because they are too senior, they are easily tricked by the investigated parties. I'm afraid that because of Dewas's answer, they act like attorneys under investigation, this is a very serious matter in my opinion, " said Novels.

He even questioned the competence of the supervisory board because the evidence presented regarding the alleged ethical violation was already concrete and had been submitted in its entirety. Not only that, the points of complaint are clear and clear.

"The evidence is so real, so clear, but it seems as if nothing is wrong. Of course we hope that in the future Dewas can improve himself, he is a person who has good dedication. I have worked with him several times and Of course, we hope we don't embarrass ourselves with that," said Novel.

He assessed that the KPK Supervisory Board should work according to its duties and functions, namely carrying out supervision. However, this does not seem to be the case and this is certainly very unfortunate.

According to Novel, Tumpak Hatorangan et al's decision this time will also become a serious problem and will add to the possibility of other violations. In fact, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Council should be the only internal organ that is the place for complaints of alleged ethical violations committed by leaders and employees.

"I'm afraid this will also make the KPK leadership even more daring to commit violations, why? Because the Council is very partial," he concluded.