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Other opinions: Will the KPK end?
The fate of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is now truly precarious
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he fate of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is now truly precarious. The future of the antigraft body depends on President Joko Widodo.
The KPK's move to name Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, the prospective National Police chief, a suspect has turned out to face an all-out resistance. The attempt to delegitimize KPK commissioners is carried out through political and legal channels. These attempts to undermine are systematic and designed as if upholding the supremacy of law. In fact, everybody knows that the law exists to serve power.
Finding someone's faults done in the past will never fail. To err is human. Man is not free from errors and faults, but a source of both. This means that if the past errors are to be sought, they will be found also among the KPK leaders, who in their confirmation hearings in 2011 were described by legislators as 'the dream team'.
The KPK is nearing paralysis. With the suspect status ' which is easy to declare ' the KPK commissioners will be inactive and resign. If all the KPK leaders become suspects, the institution will be paralyzed and those engaged in corrupt practices in the country will rejoice.
Whether the KPK is going to be crippled in the tenure of President Jokowi, only he can answer. However, the President's nine-goal program doesn't allow any weakening of the KPK. In the law enforcement scheme, the President emphasizes that 'We support the existence of the KPK, on which people pin their hopes for corruption eradication'.
' Kompas, Jakarta
