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Civic test should not be used to dismiss KPK employees: Jokowi
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioners, the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister and the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) to help the commission employees who failed to pass the civic knowledge test.
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Members of civil groups rally to demand President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo remove problematic names from the list of leadership candidates for the Corruption Eradication Commission in Jakarta on Sept. 1, 2019. (JP/Anggie Angela)
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to reconsider a decision to dismiss 75 employees, including its top investigators, for failing the civic knowledge test that is part of an employment status transition within the antigraft body.
In a statement uploaded to the Presidential Secretariat’s official YouTube channel on Monday, Jokowi said the results of the civic test should be used as “a step to the betterment of the KPK, both at the institutional and individual level.”
“It should also not be used as a basis to dismiss 75 employees who failed the test,” Jokowi said in the video.
Read also: ‘Racist, unnecessary’: How controversial test seen as pretext to fire top KPK employees
He went on to call on the KPK commissioners, the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister as well as the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) to formulate a course of action geared to help those who did not pass the test.
“I personally argue there’s still a chance to remedy [those who failed the test] with training on civic knowledge,” the President went on to say.
