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Backed by new regulation, KPK supervisory council readying for work
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo inaugurated on Friday five members of the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) new supervisory council, which is to oversee the lead agency in the fight against corruption in the country. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK) supervisory council is to soon commence overseeing the country’s leading antigraft agency as President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has signed a regulation mandating the formation of the council’s executive body.
Antigraft activists are pessimistic that either the regulation or the executive body would lead the KPK to a better future as the regulation itself is a derivative of the controversial revision of the KPK Law.
Jokowi signed Presidential Regulation No. 91/2019 on the executive body of the KPK’s supervisory council on Dec. 30 – more than a week after he inaugurated members of the council.
The KPK’s supervisory council is led by former KPK commissioner Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, who is to work alongside four council members: former Supreme Court justice Artidjo Alkostar, judge Albertina Ho, former Election Organization Ethics Council (DKPP) chief and former Constitutional Court justice Harjono and Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) political researcher Syamsuddin Haris.
Despite having been inaugurated on Dec. 20, they were unable to fully perform their duties until the council had an executive body.
The presidential regulation, a copy of which was obtained by The Jakarta Post, mandated the council to form an executive body, called a supervisory body secretariat. It is to be led by a secretariat leader who reports directly to the council leader.
Article 2 of the regulation stipulates that the secretariat is to be tasked to “provide administrative and technical support for the supervisory council in overseeing the KPK”. Moreover, the executive body would facilitate the council on some of its tasks, including by receiving requests for wiretapping and confiscation permits.
