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KPK fires 51 employees despite Jokowi’s call for restraint
In direct disregard of the President's response to the furor surrounding the controversial civil service qualifying test, the KPK is going ahead with the dismissal of 51 employees it claims have failed to make the grade.
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) senior investigator Novel Baswedan waves as he enters the antigraft body's Jakarta headquarters on May 17, 2021. Novel is representing 75 KPK employees who have alleged KPK supervisory board member Indriyanto Seno Adji of committing ethical violations for his involvement in the commission’s operations. (Antara/M. Risyal Hidayat)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) announced on Tuesday that it would fire 51 of 75 employees who had failed the internal test required to transition to civil service employment status.
KPK deputy head Alexander Marwata said that out of the 75 employees who took the test, only 24 had been selected for further civic education training to achieve civil servant status. The rest would be dismissed, as their assessors had deemed them unfit to receive additional career development support.
“It’s no longer feasible to hold further training” for the 51 employees, whose assessment reports were “in the red”, Alexander said at Tuesday’s press conference.
The decision comes following a lengthy meeting involving representatives from relevant agencies, including the National Civil Service Agency (BKN), the National Institute of Public Administration (LAN), the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry and the Law and Human Rights Ministry.
“We have come to a collective decision that of the 75 employees, 24 will still be allowed to receive training before they can be appointed as civil servants,” said Alex.
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The provision of the supplementary training is to be appointed to a government body. If the 24 employees make sufficient progress, they will join the 1,274 other employees who have successfully passed the civil service qualifying test (TWK).
