By: Iswar Riyadi *)
Jakarta, CIDISS – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is still the institution that is needed by the country, especially in dismantling a large-scale corruption cases. Since its inception, the Commission has faced many challenges, ranging from attempts weakening, dissolution, and criminalization against the commissioner. Now, It has been 12 years old, precisely on December 29, 2015 yesterday.
At the age of adolescence, KPK still faced various problems. The most important problem is corruption itself. In addition, there are many interests that are trying to undermine the KPK in eradicating corruption in Indonesia.
Based on a Transparency International (TI) survey in 2014, Indonesia is just in the 107th country of the 175 countries that are free from corrupting. It position shows us that the cases of corruption in Indonesia is still a concerned issue.
In addition to the main issue, it’s certainly clear in our memory how two commissioners KPK, Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjajanto, turned into a suspect after trying to investigate cases involving Indonesia police agencies (Polri) leaders. The stipulation of both KPK’s commissioner as a suspect is like a revenge from the Polri to KPK, because KPK has set one of the Polri’s leader as a suspect in a corruption case.
That criminalization will be a dark history for KPK in eradicating corruption. The important one is how to keep similar incidents do not recur because the KPK’s criminalization is not good to be displayed. The criminalization will only be a farce for the corruptors who haven’t been caught. They will have a lot of laugh if they saw the KPK commissioner was forced to step down.
It is the time for the entire law enforcement agencies, including KPK, the General Attorney, and the Indonesian police, simultaneously changing the barrel of the gun to the corruptors and no longer mutually brandishing guns to fellow eradication of corruption, unless we find a corruptor in each law enforcement agencies.
With a lack of integrity, cooperation, and coordination among those enforcement agencies, Indonesia would be able to deter the corrupt. Thus, the eradication of corruption cases will be easier to do. Finally, Indonesia was no longer in a 107th position, but it would be in the first position as a free corruption country. [IR]
*) Junior Researcher at CIDISS
