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Observers boo bloated KPK
“The fattening of this organizational structure is very problematic,” an Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) activist said.
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri greets journalists before speaking at a press conference on a graft case pertaining to a fictitious project by state-owned construction firm PT Waskita Karya at the KPK headquarters in Jakarta on July 23. (Antara/M. Risyal Hidayat)
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ctivists have criticized a decision by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to alter to its organizational structure and hire more employees, calling the move “fattening” and baseless.
On Nov. 6, the antigraft agency issued Regulation No. 7/2020 on the organizational and work procedures of the KPK, which created 19 new positions or departments and removed three existing ones.
KPK deputy commissioner Alexander Marwata said the restructuring took the current KPK leadership’s strategic plan into account.
“In principle, this structural development is to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of task execution,” Alexander said during a press conference on Thursday.
The move, he added, sought to adjust the development of the task function stipulated in Articles 6 and 7 of the 2019 KPK Law, which address preventing corruption, the treatment of perpetrators and the development of educational programs.
The 19 new positions and departments include a deputy head of education and community participation, a directorate of educational networks, a directorate of socialization and anticorruption campaigns, a directorate of community participation development, a directorate of anticorruption education and training and a secretariat for the deputy head of education and community participation.
They also include a directorate of anticorruption for business entities, a deputy head of coordination and supervision, a directorate of regional coordination and supervision for regions I to V and a secretariat for the deputy head of coordination and supervision.
