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View all search resultsKPK criticized for car procurement plan
“[Expensive cars] are inefficient and ineffective because they don’t directly improve the quality of the country’s graft eradication campaign,” said former KPK commissioner Bambang Widjojanto.
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atchdogs and a former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioner have criticized the antigraft body’s recent move to procure cars for its high-ranking officials and supervisory board members, saying the plan is “against the commission’s values”.
The House of Representatives recently approved the KPK’s budget for 2021, which includes a plan to procure official cars for the agency’s commissioners and other high-ranking officials.
While the budget for the vehicles has yet to be determined, it was previously reported that the KPK had allocated Rp 1.45 billion (US$98,209) for a new car for chairman Firli Bahuri and Rp 1 billion each for cars other commissioners.
Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) activist Kurnia Ramadhana said the plan to purchase official cars showed the deterioration of the antigraft body’s integrity under Firli’s leadership. He called the procurement “unethical” because it was occurring during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis.
“As leaders of an anticorruption institution, they should understand and be sensitive to our current situation caused by the outbreak, which has devastated the economy,” Kurnia said in a statement on Friday.
He added that the plan was part of a long list of “hedonistic” practices by current KPK leaders, following a recent brouhaha surrounding Firli’s use of a private helicopter service for a personal trip in June.
The KPK supervisory council found Firli guilty of violating the comission’s code of ethics in September for the taking the helicopter trip – the first time a KPK chair has faced such a sanction.
