'King of OTT at KPK': Immigration and Prisons Need Comprehensive Overhaul

Former senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Harun Al Rasyid has commended the sting operation conducted by the KPK within the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections (Imipas). This serves as proof that the immigration and corrections sector requires a comprehensive overhaul. The man known as the ‘king of OTT’ at the KPK expressed his appreciation to the KPK enforcement team for once again uncovering alleged corruption through a sting operation. ‘I salute my KPK colleagues who consistently carry out sting operations very intelligently and elegantly. This is the most effective way to catch corrupt criminals,’ Harun said in a statement from Medina, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. According to the Director General of Hajj Management and Implementation at the Ministry of Hajj, the sting operation did not merely uncover alleged corruption involving several officials, but also indicated serious problems in institutional governance. He assessed that corrupt practices occurring within the immigration and corrections environment have become systemic. ‘The OTT is authentic proof that immigration and prisons must be reformed comprehensively and massively, because the corruption is no longer congregational, but has reached a state of mass supplication,’ he said. Harun stressed that internal improvement measures can no longer be postponed. According to him, reform must start from human resource governance to the operational systems that provide the space for corrupt practices. ‘Internal reform, especially HR governance and its operational systems, urgently requires fundamental and essential change and improvement,’ he said. In addition, he highlighted the importance of building the integrity of apparatus within Immigration and Corrections. ‘The integrity and professionalism of human resources must also be improved and comprehensively restructured,’ said Harun.