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Activists call for Lili’s resignation following ethics breach
The coalition, comprised of Anticorruption Indonesian Women and I am a Woman Against Corruption called on the KPK’s supervisory council to reconsider its decision in punishing Lili, arguing that she should be dismissed from her position due to her ethics breach.
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioner Lili Pintauli Siregar (center) and General Elections Commission (KPU) head Arief Budiman (left) listen to questions raised by journalists in a press conference on the arrest of KPU commissioner Wahyu Setiawan over alleged bribery, on Jan. 9, 2020. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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coalition of women antigraft activists have criticized the light punishment handed to the Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK) deputy chairperson Lili Pintauli Siregar, arguing that Lili deserved a heavier punishment for breaching the antigraft agency’s ethics code.
The coalition, comprised of Anticorruption Indonesian Women and I am a Woman Against Corruption called on the KPK’s supervisory council to reconsider its decision in punishing Lili, arguing that she should be dismissed from her position due to her ethics breach.
The council found Lili guilty on Aug. 30 of violating the antigraft agency’s ethics code for keeping close contact with M. Syahrial, then-mayor of Tanjungbalai, North Sumatra at a time when Syahrial was a person of interest in a KPK investigation into alleged bribery that occurred in July 2019.
The council also found that Lili had notified Syahrial, who is currently standing trial, that he had been under investigation.
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For her ethics breach, the council punished Lili by reducing her basic salary by 40 percent for the next 12 months.
“A KPK deputy commissioner contacting a corruption suspect; this is something we have never imagined,” the coalition’s representative Gita Putri Damayana said in a press conference on Monday.
