KPKPN fails again to keep its words<\/p>\n
Tiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The Public Servants' Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) once again
\nfailed to fulfill its own promise on Monday to reveal the names
\nof legislators who had not reported their wealth to the
\ncommission by the deadline last Friday.<\/p>\n
Deputy chairman of KPKPN in charge of legislators' wealth
\nAbdullah Hehamahua told reporters on Monday that the decision to
\nwithhold the names of legislators was taken, "due to the fact
\nthat almost half of these remaining 197 legislators have declared
\ntheir assets to us."<\/p>\n
"Had all 197 legislators failed to return their wealth reports
\nby the Friday deadline, we would have announced it to the public.
\nBut due to their positive response to our warning, in which just
\nover half of these 197 legislators reported their wealth, we
\ndecided not to reveal their names in recognition of their
\ncooperation," Hehamahua said at his office in Central Jakarta on
\nMonday.<\/p>\n
However, a KPKPN member requesting anonymity said that as of
\nMonday only two of 197 legislators had reported their assets, and
\none of them was Haryanto Taslam of the Indonesian Democratic
\nParty of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan).<\/p>\n
He said the decision was made during the commission's plenary
\nmeeting last week.<\/p>\n
As reported earlier, some 197 of 500 legislators failed to
\ndeclare their assets to KPKPN.<\/p>\n
To pressure the legislators, KPKPN held a plenary meeting
\ndiscussing several issues, including the establishment of the
\nmechanism for publishing the names of legislators who did not
\ndeclare their assets.<\/p>\n
Fahmi Idris of the Golkar Party, Zulfan Lindan of PDI
\nPerjuangan and all the chairmen of House of Representatives
\ncommissions are reportedly on the list of noncompliant
\nlegislators.<\/p>\n
It is also reported that KPKPN believes that five of the 126
\nlegislators from the House and the People's Consultative
\nAssembly, whose wealth declarations have been checked by the
\ncommission, are believed to have obtained at least some of their
\nwealth through corruption, collusion, or nepotism.<\/p>\n
Hehamahua earlier revealed that they had planned to ask for
\nsome revisions to Law No. 28\/1999 on clean government because it
\ndid not grant KPKPN the power to impose stern sanctions on
\nlegislators who refused to report their assets.<\/p>",
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