TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) confirmed that it was involved in organizing the civic knowledge test (TWK), which is one of the requirements for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) employees to become State Civil Apparatus (ASN). However, BNPT denied that it also participated in deciding the fate of the 75 employees who failed the test.

"BKN [National Civil Service Agency] asked for a letter to the BNPT head to assist the profiling test, and we deployed our unit to do the profiling," said BNPT Head Boy Rafli Amar during a hearing with Commission 3 of the House of Representatives (DPR) on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Those involved were BNPT officers at echelon 3.

Boy asserted that the BNPT was under coordination of BKN. The involvement of the BNPT, he added, was also inseparable from the number of participants that reached more than a thousand. "Regarding who passed and who did not pass the test is on the mechanism implemented by BKN as the test organizer," said Boy.

Boy also confirmed that BNPT personnel acted as assessors under the BKN during the stages of tests.

The civic knowledge test has become public limelight as it was considered as a tool taken by the leaders of the anti-graft body to dismiss a number of employees who were deemed critical and could not be controlled.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo had spoken up about the test and asked related parties to not use it as the basis for dismissing KPK employees. However, two days ago, the agency confirmed that it would dismiss 51 of the 75 employees who failed the test.

EGI ADYATAMA