KPK members yet to receive salaries

JAKARTA: The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman and his four deputies have been working without proper salaries since they took office in December 2003.

KPK chairman Taufiequrachman Ruki told members of the House of Representatives Commission III on legal and domestic affairs here on Wednesday that the government had been paying the antigraft body executives in an irregular manner, as there was not yet a set salary procedure as stipulated in a regulation governing the matter.

Ruki said his office had submitted the draft regulation on the KPK's organizational structure and salaries on March 15, but then president Megawati Soekarnoputri failed to authorize it, and the current president still had not. -- JP