KPK deputy chairman Haryono Umar said that as of Thursday, 128 of the 560 legislators had not submitted their wealth disclosure forms (LHKPN).

He said the main factor behind the long delay was the lack of sanctions outlined by regulations and shoddy law enforcement.

“The regulations state that officials must report their wealth two months after being appointed to office, which was last November,” Haryono said.

He  added that the commission faced problems in making officials fill in the reports on time since the law lacked sanctions for delays. This leaves the commission dependent on the officials’ own initiative.

“That’s why we will work with their internal administrations as we did with the Supreme Court,” he said.

“The court distributed formal memos to all their staff saying that promotions would be delayed for those who had not submitted the wealth forms.”

The wealth report forms are part of the country’s corruption eradication efforts among government officials by obliging them to fill in forms before, during and after their appointment.

The forms, which detail the officials’ wealth, could supposedly indicate questionably large jumps in personal fortune gained during a tenure.

Wealth disclosure applies to all officials in government institutions and not only legislators. Haryono said the number of reports filed by officials in state-owned enterprises (SOE) was low compared to the number of reports from officials at the Supreme Court.

“Around 60 percent of SOE officials handed in the reports, compared to the approximately 90 percent of reports handed in by officials at the Court,” he told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

As for legislators, he said the commission “will continue pushing” them to submit their wealth reports.

“We will present the data to the House and party leaders so they can also encourage them to declare their wealth,” he said, adding that the commission would help legislators fill in the forms.

The KPK says the National Mandate Party (PAN) tops the list by percentage of non-compliant legislators with almost 50 percent not disclosing their wealth, or 26 of the party’s 46 representatives.

PAN chairman Asman Abnur said 80 percent of the 26 members had actually completed the forms, but had not sent them in since the party wished to submit all of the forms together.

“We are one party so we would like to help each other complete the forms. It’s better than sending them one by one and having those sent back due to incomplete documents,” he told the Post.

He added that the sanction for tardy members involved reprimands as a form of “moral sanction”.
The KPK says 42 of the 148 Democratic Party legislators and 28 of the 94 Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle legislators have not submitted the reports.

There are 52 other legislators from various parties who have also failed to disclose their wealth. (gzl)

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