Jakarta –
Meranti Islands Regent Muhammad Adil became a KPK suspect for allegedly collecting deposits from the head of the regional apparatus work unit (SKPD) for the benefit of advancing to the Governor Election in 2024. The Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) considers that regional heads are corrupt for the sake of capital political ambition due to the failure of the prevention program KPK.
MAKI coordinator Boyamin Saiman said that almost all regional head candidates usually owe money to run and win the regional elections. If elected, said Boyamin, the regional head in the first period of his leadership must collect money to return on investment and look for campaign costs for the second period.
“Because he hasn’t had enough return on investment for one period and maybe he’s just embarrassed about corruption. So he hopes to be able to find as much money as possible in the second period, so he’s struggling to get costs for the campaign ahead of the second period. Where will the money come from? Relying on salaries and honoraria is not enough, so inevitably, corruption is a shortcut, right,” Boyamin told reporters, Saturday (8/4/2023).
Boyamin said that there are many ways for regional heads to commit corruption. Among them are trading influence related to promotions, permits, projects to circumcise employee rights.
“Regarding HR promotions, those who are great, smart, and with integrity should be promoted. But because of the needs of regional heads, those who are promoted are those who bribe or deposit. Then related to other authorities, for example, permission is given to those who bribe,” he said.
He considers that the cost of politics in Indonesia is very high, and has not even been monitored. Boyamin criticized the KPK’s prevention program which he considered failed to prevent potential corruption practices by officials in the country.
“These potentials for corruption will increase because the Corruption Eradication Commission also failed to make the prevention that was echoed, what was heralded during this period will make great prevention, a good budget system, a good promotion system and so on, a good system of using authority, no abused,” he said.
“But the reality is not there, in the end, so that it looks like it is working, do OTT. So in the end, it fails, from the prevention side it fails, from the enforcement side it fails,” he added.
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