Hobbling Indonesia’s anti-corruption body The introduction of a so-called “civics” tests for investigators appear to be a thinly disguised attack on human rights.
Demonstrations against proposed legislative changes in 2019 to anti-corruption laws: the latest concern focuses on a so-called “civics” test for staff at the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK (Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images) Published 29 Jun 2021 06:00 0 Comments
Ask any Indonesian about their country’s most pressing problem and more likely than not the answers you’ll get are “the economy” and “corruption”.
This is with good reason. Indonesia ranks 102 of 179 on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index, falling over four years from a previous ranking of 90, underscoring the problem with widespread graft. Corruption among judges, prosecutors and senior police offi
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Fifty-one employees with Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission will be fired after flunking a mandatory national loyalty test, the civil service announced, as critics accused the government of getting rid of capable graft busters and undermining the agency’s independence.
The decision to dismiss these Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) staffers followed weeks of controversy that swirled around the so-called National Outlook Test. They were required to pass it as their agency transitions to being run by the civil service, which will take over the KPK later this year, officials said.
The 51 were among 75 KPK employees who failed the test earlier this month, but the 51 failed on particular questions which they had to answer correctly and for which they would have no chance to retake the test, according to Bima Haria Wibisana, the head of the National Civil Service Agency (BKN).
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REUTERS: Indonesian anti-corruption activists have suffered a surge of digital attacks, from the hacking of messaging accounts to the sabotage of a Zoom conference with pornography, and they say they fear they are being targeted for speaking out.
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