Not all former TWK 'victim' employees want to return to the KPK

Jakarta – IM57+ Institute appeals to 57 former KPK employees to return to work at the KPK. However, not all former KPK employees want to return and choose to continue their careers elsewhere for various reasons. Summarized by detikcom, Sunday (19/10/2025), former KPK investigator Yudi Purnomo Harahap stated that he does not want to return to work at the KPK. He said there were many reasons that made him decide not to return to the KPK. “I have decided not to return to the KPK, I want to protect the KPK from outside,” Yudi said on Saturday (18/10) upon confirmation. Scroll TO CONTINUE CONTENT The former chairman of the KPK Employees’ Forum admitted that he was concerned that returning to the KPK would hamper the struggle of IM57+ Institute colleagues. This concern, he said, arose because he had often criticized a number of major corruption cases. “I understand that if I return to the Corruption Eradication Commission, there will be high resistance from the parties who got rid of us in the past, especially now that I am also critical and my track record as an investigator in handling major cases like e-KTP and the Century Bank case will actually hinder the process of getting my friends back. So I have decided not to return to the Corruption Eradication Commission,” he emphasized. Nevertheless, Yudi encouraged the former employees’ ‘victims’ of the National Insight Test (NST) to return to work at the KPK. According to him, the process of repatriating former employees can be easy because the current KPK leadership is someone who has also worked with them. “Moreover, we know that the Corruption Eradication Commission has started some revival at present, but it is not yet encouraging. Therefore, I hope that the current leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission will welcome friends who want to return with open arms,” ​​he said. “After all, the current KPK leadership and the former TWK employees already know each other, for example Pak Setya (Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Committee) is a former director of education, Pak Fitroh (Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission) is a former director of prosecution. This means that they have worked together in the past,” he added. Former KPK ‘OTT king’ Harun Al Rasyid expressed a similar thing. Harun said that he was currently serving at the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, so he did not want to return to work at the KPK. “I served at the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. Yes (I don’t want to return to the KPK) because I think the field of service to the state and nation can be anywhere,” Harun told reporters on Saturday (18/10). However, Harun said he still supports friends who are struggling to return to the KPK. He also supports opening up the national insight testing process to the public as requested by his colleagues who are members of the IM57+ Institute. “But I still support my friends who want to return to the KPK, and I support the argument that the TWK carried out at the time was a ruse to get rid of KPK employees with integrity,” he said. Earlier, the Chairman of the IM57+ Institute, Lakso Anindito, said that all former KPK employees have one voice, they want to return to work at the KPK. They also filed a lawsuit against KIP and demanded that the TWK results be made public. “All are one (vote). Return to the Corruption Eradication Commission as a form of rights restoration,” chairman of the IM57+ Institute, Lakso Anindito, said when asked on Tuesday (14/10). They consider the TWK results in 2020 as opaque because they were not open. TWK is a test that the KPK implemented in 2020 for all its employees. This test is a requirement when KPK employees will change their status to ASN. A total of 57 KPK employees were then declared to have failed the test and formed a forum at the IM57+ Institute. Regarding this desire, the IM 57+ Institute also asked President Prabowo Subianto to take a firm stand. He believes this is a good momentum for Prabowo to show his commitment to strengthening the KPK. “This is a good momentum for President Prabowo Subianto to show his commitment to strengthening the KPK by returning the rights of 57 KPK employees to the KPK. This issue has been a protracted issue without clarity even though there were recommendations from Komnas HAM and the Ombudsman,” explains Lakso. Government’s urgency to return ex-employees. Former senior KPK investigator Praswad Nugraha said that he wants to return to work at the KPK. He fought alongside 57 employees who are members of the IM57+ Institute. “Due to the widespread aspirations of the public that the 57 employees who were removed by the TWK mechanism to return to active service at the KPK, I can say that it is true that I and all my fellow 57 employees are willing to return,” Praswad told journalists on Saturday (18/10). Praswad also revealed that there were a number of reasons why the government had to return them to the KPK. First, he assessed that the momentum to reactivate 57 KPK employees who were victims of discrimination by TWK engineering during the era of Firli Bahuri’s leadership could be used by President Prabowo and the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Committee as concrete evidence that this era is not the same as the corrupt era. “A clear demarcation must be drawn between the Firli Bahuri era and the Setyo Budiyanto era, there must be a distinction between the dark era of the KPK and the enlightened era of the KPK, and the most concrete thing to prove this is to restore the constitutional rights of KPK employees that were brutally confiscated by depriving the Pancasila employees. human rights,” he said. According to him, this move to return KPK employees will be the clearest sign that the KPK has changed in the era of President Prabowo Subianto and under the current leadership of Setyo Budiyanto. He hopes that the government and KPK will commit to protecting anti-corruption fighters, and not embrace those who want to weaken the eradication of corruption. “Second (reason), efforts to improve the Corruption Eradication Commission which has fallen to the point of having a chairman and leaders who carry out corrupt acts cannot be done only by jargon and sweet promises. If you want to regain the people’s trust, none other than President Prabowo Subianto should start the zero point of his journey from the point of eradication of corruption in the point of eradication of corruption. Committee building,” he said. He said the next reason is that if the government facilitates them to return to work at the KPK, it will be a strong political message. He said this action could show that Prabowo’s government is not weakening the eradication of corruption. “This action will prove that this government is not a government that is corrupt or compromises on the practice of weakening the eradication of corruption, but rather a government that has clear political will and integrity to clean state institutions from the legacy of corrupt problems. This is clear evidence of the commitment to a “cleaner, stronger and more integrity Prabowo,” he said through Prabowo. According to him, the return of the TWK can “victim” revive the KPK as it once was. He said it is possible that the Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) will stand up and regain public trust. “The return of employees whose integrity and fighting spirit have been tested in difficult times is an injection of energy and morale that is much needed to revive the spirit of the Corruption Eradication Commission, as well as the spirit of Indonesia to rise from adversity as one of the most corrupt countries in the Southeast Asia region,” he said. KPK response The KPK responded to the question of 57 former KPK employees who were members of the IM57+ Institute and stated that they want to return to work at the institution. The KPK will wait for the process to request information dispute resolution from KIP. “Now we are focusing first on the ongoing process at KIP to test whether the results are open to the public or not,” KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo said at the KPK building, Jakarta on Tuesday (14/10). The application submitted by IM57+ to KIP demanded that the 2020 TWK results be made public because they are considered opaque. TWK is a test that the Corruption Eradication Committee in 2020 on all its employees applied, resulting in 57 employees being declared to have failed. “We respect the process between the applicant and the respondent, where KIP will decide whether the information will be tested, whether it will then have to be disclosed or not. We respect the process,” he said. (kny/zap)