KPK Admits It Can't Take Elite Parties Despite Getting A Corruption Report, Why?

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) admits that it often receives reports of money flows to political party elites. However, they could not follow up.

"The party administrators are not included in the category of state administrators," KPK Deputy Chair Alexander Marwata told reporters quoted on Friday, June 9.

A number of these reports are often followed up but are deadlocked. "That's information that has been cleared but then after we studied it, it was the one who gave (money, ed) this is also not a state administrator," said Alexander.

He even gave an example of having received a direct report to his cell phone. However, the KPK could not do much because the giver was a businessman who would run for office while the elite political party accepted that it was not a state administrator.

"So we are confused in the end, right," he said.

This confusion, continued Alexander, is due to the current law. He said, the anti-corruption commission could only follow up on reports if the perpetrators were state administrators.

Thus, Alexander considered that there needed to be a change in the understanding of state administrators. Party officials should be included in it.

"We hope that yes, maybe there needs to be a judicial review or whatever, yes, political parties are institutions that will give birth to state administrators, right? Members of the DPRD, then regional heads, including the president," he explained.

"So as an institution, yes or an organization that gave birth to state officials or state administrators, of course the management (parpol, ed) should also, in our opinion, that is categorized as a state administrator, because it is very vulnerable (to corruption, ed)," continued Alexander.

That way, party officials are expected not to practice money politics. Thus, the general election (election) in the future can produce representatives of the people and regional heads who work properly.

"I do not imagine that if there is still political money or there is money related to finding a vehicle like that, so far, the KPK cannot take action," he concluded.