KPK members yet to receive salaries

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