KPKPN asked to warn councillors

KPKPN asked to warn councillors

JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Governance Watch (JGW) has asked the
Public Servants' Wealth Auditing Commission (KPKPN) to promptly
issue a stern warning to all provincial councillors, particularly
those in Jakarta, for not submitting reports on their wealth and
assets to the commission.

JGW's Jakarta chapter chief, Muarif Ambary, said in a written
statement released to The Jakarta Post here on Monday, that the
KPKPN should issue the warning twice and that the second warning
should involve sanctions.

"If after the second warning, they still refuse to submit
their wealth reports, then KPKPN can take them to court," he
said, adding that their refusal implied they did not support the
national campaign to eliminate corruption, collusion and
nepotism.

He said that KPKPN had distributed the wealth report forms to
the councillors five months ago, but until now, not one of the
provincial councillors had submitted their wealth report.

Leaders of The Association of Provincial Councillors had
stated that they would only present their reports to KPKPD, a
provincial commission for auditing provincial officials' wealth,
which has yet to be set up.

Jakarta councillor Agung Imam Soemanto of the Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) insisted that he
would not submit his wealth report until all provincial councils
across the country agreed to do so.

"We demand that the KPKPD be established first," Agung of the
City Council's Commission B for economic affairs said.

But Muarif said, "Their demand to report to KPKPD was just a
ploy to justify not reporting their wealth, which had seemingly
been obtained through corrupt practices." He added that the
formation of KPKPD would be ineffective and would further burden
the national budget. (jun)