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KPK defends performance with ‘big fish’, graft prevention
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri shows evidence during a press briefing at the KPK headquarters in Jakarta on Nov. 11, 2020. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has defended its work in the first half of the year, pointing to high-profile arrests and improvements in graft prevention measures.
KPK chairman Firli Bahuri said at a press briefing on Monday that the antigraft body had improved its score in a performance assessment carried out by its supervisory board in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year.
This year, the commission scored 93.65 in the assessment, up from last year’s 92.06. Firli did not, however, provide details about the assessment, such as the indicators used to evaluate the antigraft body’s performance.
He hailed the arrest of suspended Papua Governor Lukas Enembe as one of antigraft body’s big successes in the first half of the year.
“There’s an opinion that the KPK hasn’t been working to catch big fish. Of course we have,” Firli said during a Monday press briefing. “Lukas Enembe hasn’t been ensnared by the law for about 10 years, but we’ve managed to capture him now.”
The KPK had also arrested more people in total this year, Firli noted. Between January and June, it had detained 89 people on graft charges, up from 68 last year.
It appears that the KPK has also shifted its strategy away from sting operations, with three such operations in the first half of the year, down from six in the same period last year.
