"We are planning to recruit more investigators."Jakarta (ANTARA News) - According to an anti-graft agency`s official, preventive and law enforcement efforts by the agency have slowed down due to the withdrawal of several personnel recently.
"Prevention and law enforcement efforts have slowed down after staff were withdrawn from the organisation," said Busyro Muqqodas, deputy chief commissioner of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), on Wednesday.
The number of KPK investigators went down after the National Police Headquarters sent a letter (on November 30, 2012) stating that 13 of its members (working as investigators in the KPK) will be recalled, including Commissioner Novel Baswedan.
Novel Baswedan was involved in the investigation of a corruption case at the National Traffic Police Corps, which involved several police generals, including the former chief of the corps.
Busyro said with the latest withdrawal, the number of KPK investigators has dropped by 27, from 88 to only 61, as 15 investigators had earlier been withdrawn from the agency.
To overcome the shortage, he said KPK will internally accelerate the recruitment of new investigators.
"We are planning to recruit more investigators, but it has not been finalised yet," he said.
Busyro said the KPK is seeking to revise the Government Regulation Number 63 of 2005, which states that the tenure of civil servants assigned to the KPK (which is four years), can only be extended once.
"So, the present regulation only allows a maximum tenure of eight years. But what happens if they are withdrawn every year?" he asked.
He hopes the regulation will be revised to extend the tenure to 12 years.
He said the draft of the new regulation has reached the president.
"If the regulation is changed, a lot of problems can be overcome, including early withdrawals. So, it is in the hands of the state secretariat and the president," he said.
(T.D017/H-YH/INE/KR-BSR/S012)
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