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KPK commissioners bid farewell amid setbacks, defeats
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Unfinished business: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Agus Rahardjo – accompanied by KPK commissioners Saut Situmorang and Laode Muhammad Syarif – speaks to journalists at a press conference at the KPK headquarters in South Jakarta on Sept. 13. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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embers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) bid a rather somber farewell on Tuesday, recalling their achievements and acknowledging, with some bitterness, major setbacks and controversies hampering the antigraft agency over the last four years.
All the commissioners but one, Alexander Marwata, have ended their tenure. The next leaders will be inaugurated next Friday.
Police general Insp. Gen. Firli Bahuri will be the KPK chairman from 2019 to 2023. He will lead the agency alongside four other commissioners: incumbent Alexander, academic Nurul Ghufron, judge Nawawi Pomolango and lawyer Lili Pintauli Siregar.
Outgoing KPK chairman Agus Rahardjo recounted the agency’s accomplishments over the last four years during a press conference at the KPK building in South Jakarta.
The KPK has launched 498 investigations and 433 prosecutions in which 608 individuals have been named suspects over the last four years.
One of the last suspects the KPK announced was former Supreme Court secretary Nurhadi Abdurachman, who is suspected of accepting Rp 46 billion (US$3.2 million) in bribes in connection with three cases handled at the country’s highest court between 2011 and 2016.
Under Agus’ leadership, the KPK managed to complete the investigation and prosecution of then-House speaker Setya Novanto over his involvement in the Electronic ID Card (E-KTP) graft case, which reportedly cost the state Rp 2.3 trillion (US$164 million). Setya was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Jakarta Corruption Court.
