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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Monday that it would invite President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo'€™s 34 ministers to a briefing about good governance.

The antigraft body said the briefing was designed to boost anti-corruption knowledge among Jokowi'€™s ministers to prevent a recurrence of corruption cases related to government projects, such as those that occurred during the administration of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono when three active ministers were arrested by the KPK for graft.

'€œWe will provide them with adequate anti-corruption knowledge for them in their work in the five years ahead,'€ KPK deputy chairman Adnan Pandu Praja said on Monday.

Another KPK commissioner Zulkarnain said that he expected the briefing would take place soon following the ministers'€™ swearing-in at the Presidential Palace on Monday.

Zulkarnain also called on Jokowi to instruct his ministers to promptly submit their wealth reports to the antigraft body.

'€œWe are about to send a formal letter to the President reminding him that after Monday'€™s swearing-in all the ministers officially become state officials and they are then required to report their wealth to the antigraft body,'€ Zulkarnain said.

Prior to the ministerial announcement on Sunday, the antigraft body screened around 80 ministerial candidates as requested by Jokowi. Ten of the candidates were found likely to be implicated in graft cases handled by the antigraft body in the future.

The KPK urged Jokowi not to pick any of the 10 candidates, saying that such a move would tarnish the image of his new administration.

KPK chief Abraham Samad refused to comment on whether any of the 34 people appointed by Jokowi as his ministers were among those who had been blacklisted by the KPK. '€œThere were around 80 names and around 10 of them are problematic. I cannot recall whether any of the problematic candidates were picked [by Jokowi] in the end,'€ Abraham said.

Abraham pledged to disclose the names of the 10 candidates soon.

Some of the 34 ministers are state officials whose wealth reports were submitted earlier by the antigraft body. The KPK called on all Jokowi'€™s ministers to update their wealth records for the antigraft body and to make periodic updates during their ministerial terms.

Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo, who is a fellow member of Jokowi'€™s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has been in the spotlight for not regularly reporting his wealth to the antigraft body. He has been a lawmaker since 1987.

According to KPK data, Tjahjo first reported his wealth in 2001 but has submitted no wealth report since then. He had assets of Rp 515 million (US$42,423) on deposit and properties worth Rp 87 million as well as vehicles worth Rp 267 million in 2001.

Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi of the Hanura Party last reported his wealth of Rp 2.5 billion and $29,400 to the antigraft body in 2003.

'€œWe expect that within two months all ministers will have submitted updated wealth reports to the antigraft body. By [regularly] reporting their wealth they help the country'€™s corruption-eradication efforts,'€ Zulkarnain said.