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KPK URGED TO ADDRESS CORRUPTION CASES IN PAPUA
Jayapura, July 9 (ANTARA) - A local religious leader said the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has so far not paid any attention to or touched suspected corruption cases involving serving and former office-holders in Papua's executive and legislative branches at provincial and district or municipal levels, creating the impression the KPK was "discriminative" in carrying out its mission.
Rev Socratez Sofyan Yoman, chairman of the Papua Baptist Churches Association , said corruption was being committed at all government administrative levels without anything being done to fight it, causing people to lose confidence in the government.
"People want the executive and legislative branches of government to remain clean but in reality enormous sums of money meant to improve the community's welfare have been embezzled or misappropriated by executive or legislative officials. The KPK seems still unwilling to come to Papua to solve this complex problem," he said.
Socratez predicted, if the KPK failed to take up and solve suspected corruption cases in Papua, the people in Indonesia's most-eastern province would sooner or later lose their belief in a legitimate, clean and corruption-, collusion- and nepotism-free government , followed by discontentment about the government and finally the outbreak of vertical and horizontal conflicts.
There were many suspected big-time corruption cases in Papua but none of them had so far been investigated seriously , much less settled in court. All reported cases ended up being shelved by police, public prosecutors or judges under all sorts of pretexts such as "lack of evidence' or the conclusion that the cases merely involved "administrative errors." he said.
Among the suspected corruption cases that had so far remained untouched by the KPK were one involving tens of billions of rupiah in the Waropen district administration, one in the Mimika district administration when it was led by former district chief Klemen Tinal , another one in Timika district affecting a state-owned building.
Anther big case happened in Puncak Jaya district, namely in relation with the Mulia Hydropower Plant project costing Rp11,275,465,000 and managed by Papua province's energy and mineral resources office in cooperation with PT Bumi Cipta Alam Selaras.
"If the KPK does not come to Puncak Jaya, Mimika and Waropen and other districts soon to handle the corruption cases, the local people's discontent and loss of confidence could turn into nationally disintegrative attitudes and actions," Socratez warned.
Papuan people knew the central government had allocated trillions of rupiah in funds to develop their region, especially for the benefit of the province's indigenous people. Yet there were no signs of improvement in the people's health care, family nutrition, education, infrastructure facilities and economic welfare in general, the clergyman said.
Rev Socratez Sofyan Yoman, chairman of the Papua Baptist Churches Association , said corruption was being committed at all government administrative levels without anything being done to fight it, causing people to lose confidence in the government.
"People want the executive and legislative branches of government to remain clean but in reality enormous sums of money meant to improve the community's welfare have been embezzled or misappropriated by executive or legislative officials. The KPK seems still unwilling to come to Papua to solve this complex problem," he said.
Socratez predicted, if the KPK failed to take up and solve suspected corruption cases in Papua, the people in Indonesia's most-eastern province would sooner or later lose their belief in a legitimate, clean and corruption-, collusion- and nepotism-free government , followed by discontentment about the government and finally the outbreak of vertical and horizontal conflicts.
There were many suspected big-time corruption cases in Papua but none of them had so far been investigated seriously , much less settled in court. All reported cases ended up being shelved by police, public prosecutors or judges under all sorts of pretexts such as "lack of evidence' or the conclusion that the cases merely involved "administrative errors." he said.
Among the suspected corruption cases that had so far remained untouched by the KPK were one involving tens of billions of rupiah in the Waropen district administration, one in the Mimika district administration when it was led by former district chief Klemen Tinal , another one in Timika district affecting a state-owned building.
Anther big case happened in Puncak Jaya district, namely in relation with the Mulia Hydropower Plant project costing Rp11,275,465,000 and managed by Papua province's energy and mineral resources office in cooperation with PT Bumi Cipta Alam Selaras.
"If the KPK does not come to Puncak Jaya, Mimika and Waropen and other districts soon to handle the corruption cases, the local people's discontent and loss of confidence could turn into nationally disintegrative attitudes and actions," Socratez warned.
Papuan people knew the central government had allocated trillions of rupiah in funds to develop their region, especially for the benefit of the province's indigenous people. Yet there were no signs of improvement in the people's health care, family nutrition, education, infrastructure facilities and economic welfare in general, the clergyman said.
