The President must not continue to avoid doing anything. He should abide by the recommendation from the Ombudsman and restore the jobs of the KPK employees.

National Police Chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo plans to recruit anti-corruption fighters who failed their controversial civic knowledge test, but many regulations stand in the way.

Letters on the land for Keureuto reservoir, civic knowledge test for KPK employees, and carbon tax.

News summary of the week

More than simply sidelining 51 employees through a dubious civic knowledge test, Firli Bahuri also wrecked the working system of the Corruption Eradication Commission. The meeting point of those who wish to destroy the KPK.

Non-active KPK employees are filing a lawsuit to several institutions against the civic knowledge test. The process of regulating the test is considered as legally flawed.

The expulsion of 75 employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission using a nationalism test completes the neutralization of the institution. There is a major power in action.

The dismissal of a number of investigators and preliminary investigators for failing a civic knowledge test hampers the handling of several cases. This is advantageous to those implicated in cases investigated by the KPK.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chair Firli Bahuri allegedly already created a list of employees to be dismissed in November 2020. It is suspected that he pressured other KPK leaders to approve the civic knowledge test and inserted an article on it into KPK’s regulation. The dismissal of 75 employees was the final step in the complete disabling of the anti-corruption agency.