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‘Racist, unnecessary’: How controversial test seen as pretext to fire top KPK employees
The controversial civic knowledge test was part of the employment status transition mandated by revised KPK Law, which was passed after a speedy deliberation at the House of Representatives in 2019.
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Members of the Anticorruption Civil Society Coalition stage a rally in front of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Jakarta on Friday. They protested against KPK's recent move to hold a civic knowledge test for its employees as part of the employment status transition as mandated by the revision of the KPK Law. (Antara/Aprillio Akbar)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has come under fire for a controversial assessment test that may lead to several top graft busters being dismissed.
The test, dubbed the civic knowledge test, is part of the employment status requirements within the KPK as mandated by the revised KPK Law that was passed following a speedy deliberation at the House of Representatives in 2019. The law gave the antigraft body a deadline to complete the process by October this year.
On Wednesday, KPK deputy chairman Nurul Ghufron announced that 75 employees had failed the assessment test conducted on more than 1,300 employees. He added that two more employees had failed to show up for their interview session of the test.
The announcement was made days after Koran Tempo published reports on the results of the test, including a leaked list of the 75 employees who reportedly failed the test. It also reported that senior investigator Novel Baswedan was among the employees who apparently did not pass the test and was on the brink of dismissal from the antigraft body.
On the same occassion, KPK chairman Firli Bahuri said the KPK had received the test results from the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) on April 27, but only opened them on Wednesday.
Firli quickly dismissed concerns about the dismissal: “As of today, we have no intention of firing any employees.”
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