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Govt to extend tenure of sitting KPK leaders after court ruling
The government has finally decided to extend the tenure of sitting Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders for one more year, ending a two-week debate on whether a recent court ruling on the extension is applicable immediately.
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri announces South Sulawesi Governor Nurdin Abdullah a bribery suspect in a press conference on Feb. 28, 2021. (Courtesy of/KPK)
The government has finally decided to extend the tenure of sitting Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders for one more year, ending a two-week debate on whether a recent court ruling on the extension was applicable immediately.
Uncertainty surrounding the tenure of the current and controversial KPK leadership emerged after the Constitutional Court ruled to extend the tenure for leaders of the antigraft agency from four years to five years without specifying whether it should be enforced immediately for sitting leaders.
The government made the decision to allow the five sitting KPK leaders to stay in office beyond Dec. 20, 2023, when their tenure was supposed to end, after Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD consulted with court justices as well as law experts, and even though the government opposed the ruling.
“The Constitutional Court said the tenure of KPK commissioners is five years and that this applies to the existing [commissioners]. So the government will follow this,” Mahfud told the press on Friday at the State Palace, as quoted from Kompas.id. “A Constitutional Court ruling is final and binding – whether we like it or not.”
Mahfud had been instructed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to study the ruling before the government made the decision.
The government, however, would only issue a presidential decree on the one-year extension of the tenure sometime shortly before the tenure ends in December
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