By: Ahsan Zoelfa *)
Jakarta, CIDISS – Discourse to revise the Constitution of KPK was arise. For this time, the revision of the Constitution of KPK focused on four points, such as wiretapping authority, the establishment of the Supervisory Board of KPK, the investigators recruitment, and the authority to issue a Warrant Termination of Investigation (SP3). And, as ever before, the discourse got a high interest from public. It can be understand because public has high expectations to the KPK’s performance. Most of the public would agree that, KPK is a state agency that could be said to be “the cleanest” and most reliable to eradicate corruption in Indonesia. Therefore, it is reasonable why most of the public felt “uneasy” with the implementation of the plan to revising the Constitution of KPK.
Public’s “uneasy feeling” toward the discourse is reasonable. Moreover, public heard that the revision of Constitution of KPK aims to weaken KPK. Of course, public get over reactive. Regardless that whether the issue is right or not, public was already got “drifted”. Particularly, if public looking from most facts, the revision of the Constitution of KPK was first proposed by House of Speaker, state institutions that has been to get negative appraisal from the public. Thus, it is not wrong if public assuming that the revision of the Constitution of KPK aims to weaken the KPK so that the corruptor in the House of Speaker can act as much as they like.
Public’s “uneasy feeling” is being deepened, especially after hearing the official statement from President Jokowi who agreed to the proposed the revision of the Constitution of KPK. Most public got disappointed, because Mr. Jokowi’s statement implied that he has reneged on his commitment to eradicate corruption in Indonesia. In essence, Mr. Jokowi’s statement that supports the proposed revision of the Constitution of KPK is considered to have stultify against corruption that instead should continue to be voiced.
However, is the situation today has become as hopeless as public thought? Seems, it does not. Hope and encouragement to completely eradicate corruption in Indonesia is still there. At least, it was reflected also from Mr. Jokowi’s statement. Even though Mr. Jokowi accept the proposed revision of the Constitution of KPK, Mr. Jokowi insisted that the revision of the Constitution of KPK will only be done if the goal is to strengthen KPK. For example, Mr. Jokowi said that KPK will received a bigger authority if it wants to wiretaping. Mr. Jokowi has also instructed his staff, especially Menkopolhukam and Menkumham, to reject the draft revision of the Constitution of KPK that proposed by the House of Speaker if the draft was being deviated and was considered to “castrate” KPK’s authority.
Mr. Jokowi’s statement indicating that commitment to eradicate corruption in Indonesia has not subsided. Therefore, the public is not supposed to be pessimistic with the discourse to revising the Constitution of KPK. Always remember that, by revising Constitution of KPK also means that there will be a chance to strengthen KPK’s authority. Thus, the revision of the Constitution of KPK does not mean “the end of the world”, but rather a “prefix” for combating the corruption more massive than ever before. [AZ]
*) CIDISS Contributor
