YOGYAKARTA – Johanis Tanak's profile has garnered attention after a screenshot of an alleged conversation between Johanis Tanak and an official at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM).
The chat contains an invitation to Johanis Tanak, who currently serves as Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, to seek money. There is also information indicating that there is a movement behind the scenes of Johanis Tanak. Apart from this case, who is Johanis Tanak?
Profile of Johanis Tanak
Johanis Tanak is a retired prosecutor who currently serves as deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Johanis is a native of North Toraja. He was born on March 23, 1961. He is the son of Jusuf Ta'nak, a retired Indonesian National Police who comes from Sangkaropi, Sa'dan District. While his mother was named Thabita Sili who came from To'yasa Akung, Bangkelekila District.
He is an alumnus of the Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, South Sulawesi in 1983. He received a doctorate in law after he continued his studies in 2019 at Airlangga University with the Law Study Program.
Before becoming the deputy head of the KPK, Johanis' career was indeed quite flashy, especially within the Attorney General's office. He has held several strategic positions in the judiciary. For example, Johanis was Deputy Head of the Riau High Prosecutor's Office (Wakejati) in 2014. Then in 2016, he became Head of the High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) of Central Sulawesi.
In fact, he has also sat in the chair of Director of State Administration at the Junior Attorney General and State Administration.
In 2019, Johanis took part in the selection of candidates for KPK leadership. But in the voting process in the DPR, he did not get any votes at all. He returned to take the fit and proper test in 2022. Then at the Plenary Meeting which was held on September 29, 2022, Johanis was declared fit to become a KPK official.
Johanis replaced Lili Pintauli's position as one of the KPK officials with a term of office of 2019 to 2023. At that time Lili chose to resign because she received gratuities in the form of luxury facilities when watching the Mandalika MotoGP and received luxury accommodation facilities in Lombok, NTB from Pertamina.
During his tenure at the KPK, Johanis received scrutiny from the public. The reason is it goes viral on social media, snippets of conversations via instant messaging applications allegedly conversations between Deputy Chairman of the KPK, Johanis Tanak, and Acting Director General of Mineral and Coal, Muhammad Idris Froyoto Sihite. The conversation took place on October 12, 2022.
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During the conversation, Johanis asked Idris to "make money". He also admitted that he worked behind the scenes.
Regarding the chat, Johanis Tanak explained that he and Idris are old friends because both are prosecutors. He also explained that the two had one office.
"As stated, I am a friend and indeed I am friends with him. I used to be in the same office with him, so the friendship went as it should," said Johanis during a press conference at the KPK's Red and White Building, Rasuna Said Street, South Jakarta, Thursday, April 13 Evening.
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