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The government-sanctioned committee tasked to select candidates for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leadership positions has extended the deadline for candidates to apply for the jobs until July 3 amid concern that no credible candidates have registered themselves for the process
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he government-sanctioned committee tasked to select candidates for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leadership positions has extended the deadline for candidates to apply for the jobs until July 3 amid concern that no credible candidates have registered themselves for the process.
The registration process was expected to wrap up on Wednesday, but the team decided to extend the deadline with the hope that big-name candidates would submit applications.
The selection team's chairperson, Destry Damayanti, said that of all the applicants who had registered themselves, most had backgrounds as lawyers and civil servants. 'There are also a number of scholars,' she said.
Destry added that the deadline was also extended for technical reasons.
'One of the reasons was that roughly 54 percent of the 234 applicants have yet to complete the paperwork for the administrative requirements,' Destry said on Tuesday.
The team decided to extend the deadline after getting input from various groups in 10 cities in Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Sumatra.
The team has engaged in a discussion with the groups in the past few weeks. Under the new timeline, the team will announce the short-listed candidates who will undergo interviews between August 24 and 27.
'The team will submit the final names to the President on Aug. 31,' Destry said.
Destry reiterated that the committee would welcome active police officers, Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel as well as prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office (AGO) joining the selection process.
Separately, TNI chief Gen. Moeldoko said the military would recommend retired army general Hendardji Soepandji as one of its strongest potential candidates.
'I am currently drafting a recommendation letter for Pak Hendardji to the selection team,' Moeldoko said.
Meanwhile, acting KPK commissioner and former spokesman Johan Budi announced that he would join the selection process.
'Following my meeting with my mother and after much consideration, I have decided to apply,' he told reporters on Monday night.
However, incumbent commissioners Zulkarnain and Adnan Pandu Praja, as well as interim commissioners Taufiequrrachman Ruki and Indriyanto Seno Adji, all said they would not reapply for their jobs.
'I'm not going to register again because I'm just not interested. I'm already too old and will not meet the mandatory maximum age requirement. I just want to retire,' Ruki said, adding that he only took the job because President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo had asked him to.
Indriyanto said that he would like to return to academia and become a teacher.
Separately, Attorney General M. Prasetyo said that the AGO had approved and was recommending five prosecutors to apply to become KPK commissioners.
'We have reviewed their track records and I consulted with my deputy and all the junior attorneys general and former prosecutors to see if those who wish to register are fit to apply for the positions,' he told reporters at the AGO headquarters in South Jakarta.
The five prosecutors are secretary to the AGO's education and training department, Paulus Joko Subagyo, acting junior attorney general of supervision M. Jasman Panjaitan, director of state administrative lawsuits Sri Haryati and deputy head of the Papuan Prosecutor's Office, Muhammad Rum.
All five prosecutors also held positions as heads of a provincial or regional prosecutor's office at least once.
Prasetyo maintained that the AGO was making no efforts to influence the selection team into favoring its candidates.
'I have to emphasize that there is absolutely no collusion [between the AGO and the KPK selection team], but we do hope that at least one of them will be part of the KPK's fourth generation,' Prasetyo said.
The National Police have also recommended three officers who had expressed their wishes to apply: the Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Ministry's deputy of coordination and national security, Insp. Gen. Syahrul Mamma, Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Yotje Mende and a lecturer at the police force's High Staff and Command School (Sespimti), Brig. Gen. Basaria Panjaitan.
Two other officers, Traffic Police deputy chief Brig. Gen. Samuel Budiono and the National Police Chief's facilities assistant Brig. Gen. Tubagus Anis Angkawijaya, also wish to apply but are still awaiting approval from the National Police chief.
