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Committee set up to monitor KPK candidates
The government selection committee mandated with finding a new commissioner for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will include a tracking team tasked with investigating commissioner candidatesâ backgrounds
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he government selection committee mandated with finding a new commissioner for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will include a tracking team tasked with investigating commissioner candidates' backgrounds.
Committee spokesman Imam Prasodjo said that the state budget allocation for the selection process this year was smaller than that of 2011, when another committee was responsible for selecting four new leaders for the antigraft body.
Hence, the current committee would streamline the tracking team.
Imam said that the committee had not yet discussed the composition of the team, but there was a high probability that it would involve fewer elements than in 2011.
'Previously, the composition consisted of four elements, including the National Police, the National Intelligence Agency (BIN), the Attorney General's Office, and NGOs,' he said on Saturday.
Imam said that the committee would try not to eliminate people's participation, represented by NGOs, because representatives from NGOs could provide a balanced assessment of the candidates.
Imam added that to maintain the quality of the selection, the committee would make a change in how the team proposed its recommendation. 'We will ask each element of the team to make a separate report. This is to prevent compromises between those elements [in arranging the report]. Previously, it only asked for a single compiled report,' he said.
