Anti-Corruption Day, Jokowi: Authority Receives 36,000 Complaints

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) revealed a number of government`s efforts with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and anti-corruption activists in preventing corruption during the celebration of World Anti-Corruption Day.

“We continue to maximize our joint efforts to prevent and eradicate corruption,” Jokowi said at Bidakara Hotel, Jakarta, Tuesday, December 4.

The president mentioned efforts to prevent corruption in electronic-based community service systems, such as e-ticketing, e-samsat, e-procurement, e-budgeting, and e-planning.

Jokowi said the public complain system, such as the Illegal Levy Eradication Task Force (Saber Pungli), is also received positive responses from the public, considering the number of complaints that reached more than 36,000.

Other efforts in preventing corruption, he went on, include the issuance of Presidential Decree No. 54 of 2018 concerning the National Strategy for Corruption Prevention. The decree is the government's effort to build a more comprehensive and systematic safeguard system.

“This Presidential decree places the KPK as the coordinator of the national team to prevent corruption,” said Jokowi.

Another regulation is Government Regulation No. 43 of 2018 concerning Procedures for Implementing Community Participation and Awarding in the Prevention and Eradication of Corruption.

President Jokowi also said that the government did not give any tolerance to the perpetrators of corruption who escaped and brought graft money abroad. He went on to say that the Indonesian and Swiss governments will sign the Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA), a legal platform for tracking corruption money and money laundering hidden abroad. 

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