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Next KPK commissioners ‘must avoid’ conflict of interest
Anticorruption activists reminded that several investigations in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had been halted due to police intervention.
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Scrutinizing team: Yenti Ganarsih (fourth left), who heads a committee to select leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), walks with fellow committee members after meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo at the State Palace in Jakarta. The President said he hoped the committee would be able to carry out its task of selecting KPK leaders with good records. (Antara/Puspa Perwitasari )
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andidates vying for leadership at the antigraft body should resign from positions they hold in other organizations if they are selected as commissioners to ensure their independence and to prevent conflict of interest among employees.
“Chosen candidates should resign if they are still active [in other organizations],” Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) workers union secretary-general Farid Andhika told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
Farid said conflict of interest was an issue in the organization, adding that the body had taken several measures to minimize the issue, such as by selecting investigators free from conflict of interest when working on a case and establishing internal committees.
“If investigators are working on a case and it involves their colleagues, then automatically [the investigators] will not be involved in the investigation,” Farid said.
The internal committees, Farid added, were expected to uphold the code of ethics and investigate KPK employees suspected of violating the rules. “The result may differ, permanent employees could be fired but civil servants, including those with police backgrounds [working in the KPK] would be sent back to their previous organization.”
Earlier this month, Transparency International Indonesia (TII) released an assessment of the anticorruption body. The report found several examples of conflict of interest in the KPK from 2015 to 2019.
Among the examples in the report is the “red book” case, which referred to a financial book belonging to Basuki Hariman, a graft convict in a bribery case implicating former Constitutional Court justice Patrialis Akbar, who was sentenced in September 2017.
