Jakarta –
The figure of Iwan Ismail suddenly appeared in the midst of the excitement about the dismissal of KPK employees who did not pass the National Insight Test (TWK) at the end of last September. The former security guard in the KPK (Pamdal/Satpam) wrote an open letter which was copied to President Jokowi.
“The point is, I was inspired by several open letters that I read on social media. Second, I remembered back when yesterday my friends were honorably dismissed at the KPK, that I had also been dismissed,” explained Iwan when met at the KPK. detik.com in his rented room in Meruya, West Jakarta.
On December 26, 2019 he was officially dismissed as Pamdal after being deemed to have committed a serious violation. The violation in question was photographing the HTI flag on the desk of the investigator’s room on the 10th floor of the KPK Building. The photo was then uploaded on social media.
“I never spread the photo on social media. I only shared it on the Whats App group whose members are my friends in Bandung,” said the Bandung-born man, September 8, 1983.
Iwan, who claimed to have studied English until semester VI at the Nusantara Islam University, Bandung, took pictures of the HTI flag as demonstrations took place against the revision of the KPK Law. But since the beginning of becoming a security guard at the KPK in February 2018, he claimed to have seen HTI flags on two investigator tables.
“I’m just surprised, how come the flags of mass organizations that have been banned are still being put up. Then I took a photo intentionally while facing the CCTV camera. Eh, I was considered a serious violation even though the owner of the flag was never checked,” said Iwan.
He dismissed the statement by KPK spokesman Ali Fikri that what was conveyed was a hoax. “This is not a hoax, the flag really exists, you can check the CCTV footage when I took the photo,” said Iwan Ismail. Since being questioned by Internal Supervisors, he admitted that someone greeted him, “Iwan Taliban”.
“I only took photos of flags that may have caused a commotion by the KPK and were branded Taliban. But I even called Iwan Taliban,” he said.
Since coming from the KPK, the father of three has worked as a security guard in a housing estate owned by a state-owned bank in the Meruya area. He lives alone in a boarding house measuring 3×4 meters.
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