Plans by Indonesia s anti-graft watchdog to remove more than 50 of its graft investigators and personnel, while subjecting two dozen more to retraining, amounts to a purge aimed at weakening the once-vaunted agency, said one of its top investigators. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last month said 75 of its personnel had failed a tailor-made civics exam as part of an effort to fold the once independent body into the civil service under the auspices of the police. Among those who fell afoul of the controversial National Perspectives Exam (TWK) was Mr Novel Baswedan, cousin of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan. He spent 10 months recuperating in Singapore following a 2017 acid attack that blinded him in one eye and left him with only a sliver of sight in the other.
Search A journalist takes a picture in front of a big screen playing swearing-in ceremony of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) employees in South Jakarta on June 1, 2021. (Antara Photo/Akbar Nugroho Gumay) Over 1,200 KPK Employees Installed as Civil Servants amid Opposition BY :FANA SUPARMAN & HERU ANDRIYANTO JUNE 01, 2021 Jakarta. The Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, on Tuesday gathered 1,271 employees to take an oath of allegiance as civil servants to follow a new law which has met resistance from an element of its investigators. The swearing-in ceremony has drawn controversy because only those passing the so-called nationalism test are eligible to become employees.
Indonesian Anti-graft Watchdogs to be Ousted Over President’s Objections Suspect test used as pretext to get rid of KPK’s most effective sleuths Share Indonesian President Joko Widodo appears to have failed to save the jobs of 51 employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), an indication of the power of anti-sleaze forces in the country in seeking to emasculate the fabled watchdog agency. The dismissed employees, who include some of the agency’s most celebrated investigators, were among 75 ordered removed after supposedly failing a controversial “National Insight Test” or TWK on the basis of a provision requiring the employees to pass the test in order to change their status to civil service. The test, administered by the National Civil Service Agency, included what critics said was a dubious oral interview process.
Indonesia Establishes New Investment Ministry Indonesia Establishes New Investment Ministry April 30, 2021 Posted by ASEAN Briefing Written by Ayman Falak Medina Reading Time: 3 minutes Indonesia’s government has established a new Investment Ministry, as the president initiates another cabinet reshuffle. The new ministry is the result of upgrading the bureaucratic status of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) a government agency mandated to boost domestic and foreign investments into a fully-fledged government ministry. The government has targeted a total investment realization of 900 trillion rupiah (US$62.2 billion) for 2021. On April 28, 2021, Indonesia’s government established a new Ministry of Investment to enhance the ease of doing business in the country. In addition, the Ministry of Education and Culture has now merged with the Ministry of Research and Technology, to form the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology.
Juliari Batubara (centre) emerges from a Corruption Eradication Commission interrogation room after questioning in this file picture from Dec 6, 2020. -Tribunnews JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) accused former social affairs minister Juliari Batubara of accepting bribes up to Rp 32.48 billion (US$2.23 million) from contractors supplying Covid-19 food aid packages to people in need, in the first hearing of his trial on Wednesday (April 21). The prosecutors said that Juliari accepted the bribes through his subordinates in charge of procuring goods for the social aid programme Adi Wahyono and Matheus Joko Santoso. Both men are also standing trial.
Former fisheries minister of Indonesia charged in bribery case By Share Indonesia’s anti-graft agency – the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) – has accused former fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo of taking bribes in a case involving issuance of lobster seeds exports, reported Tempo. Prabowo was charged for receiving money from a number of companies in exchange for lobster larvae export permits. He allegedly took USD 77,000 (EUR 64,100) from PT Dua Putra Perkasa Director Suharjito via the former minister’s special staff, Safri, and his personal secretary, Amiril Mukmin. He was also accused of accepting IDR 24.6 billion (USD 1.7 million, EUR 1.4 million) via his special staff, Andreau Misanta Pribadi; staff of the former minister’s wife, Amiril Mukminin, and PT Perishable Logistics Indonesia Commissioner Siswadhi Pranoto.