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Ombudsman finds KPK employee dismissal marred with mismanagement
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National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioner Choirul Anam (second left) talks to journalists in Jakarta on May 24 after receiving a report from senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan (left) and other employees pertaining to the civic knowledge test for KPK employees. (Antara/M. Risyal Hidayat)
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n Indonesian Ombudsman investigation has found that the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) controversial employment test, which resulted in the dismissal of dozens of workers and top investigators, was "heavily ridden" with a series of maladministration.
It found that the meeting minutes of the deliberation of an internal KPK regulation, which later became the only document giving a legal basis for the organizing of the civic knowledge test between March and April, were signed by officials who did not attend the meeting. These included a KPK official and one representing the Law and Human Rights Ministry.
Signed in January by controversial KPK chairman Firli Bahuri, the regulation requires employees to sit the test to transition employment status to that of civil servants -- although the 2019 KPK Law does not make any reference to the civics test as part of the mandatory transition.
The Ombudsman also found that the KPK did not properly inform its employees about the regulation nor hear input from the workers before it was enacted.
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Ombudsman official Robert Endi Jaweng said two test-related memorandums of understanding (MoUs) between the KPK and the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) in April were backdated to Jan. 27. The documents stipulate the mechanism and funding for the test, including how the BKN is responsible for planning and arranging the test.
“The KPK committed another violation by holding the civic knowledge test on March 9 before the agreements were even signed," Robert told a press briefing on Wednesday, as reported by tempo.co. “This is a serious violation of administrative procedures.”
