Four governors fail to submit wealth report
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Four out of 30 governors have not yet reported their wealth to the Public Servants' Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN), the government said on Wednesday.
The announcement comes just a week after KPKPN revealed the names of 155 legislators who had not done so.
The four governors are Abdullah Puteh (Aceh), Djoko Munandar (Banten), Fadel Muhammad (Gorontalo), and Jaap Salosa (Papua).
"They will be reprimanded," Minister for Administrative Reforms Feisal Tamin was quoted as saying by Antara.
He said the four governors had been uncooperative, having been told to submit their wealth reports several times but to no avail.
Feisal said all state officials received the wealth forms about a year ago and should have completed and returned them by now.
He added that several regents had not returned their wealth reports so far either, including those from Bogor, Garut, Bandung, Lebak, Depok and the Riau Islands.
Sanctions would be imposed if they failed to submit their reports within a month from now, Feisal added.
These sanctions could include demotion or a cut in salary as well as delayed promotion.
Earlier this month, KPKPN said that about one-fifth of the country's 700-strong legislature at the House of Representatives (DPR) and the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) had not filed their wealth report.
It prompted President Megawati Soekarnoputri to urge the 150 or so legislators to fulfill their obligation. However, some of them said the forms were too complicated and requested more time to complete them.
KPKPN was established in 2000 to verify the wealth of state officials and legislators. It was also empowered to investigate suspicious cases and take them to court.
The commission came under the media spotlight following its probe into alleged graft by the three judges who, in June, delivered a controversial bankruptcy verdict against Canadian based insurance firm PT Asuransi Jiwa Manulife Indonesia.
The judges denied any wrongdoing but the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights later recommended they be suspended, pending an investigation by an ethics council.