Agus Maryono, Banyumas – The Central Java Corruption, Collusion and Nepotism Investigation and Eradication Committee (KP2KKN) is strongly criticizing government officials who hold concurrent positions at regional administration-owned enterprises (BUMD).
The criticism was voiced by KP2KKN secretary Eko Haryanto, who urged Central Java provincial administration secretary Hadi Prabowo to resign from his other post as president commissioner of Bank Jateng.
"His two positions create a conflict of interest that could lead to further state losses," Eko told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
He said such dual roles were clearly against Article 17 of the Law on Public Services that banned public officials from holding concurrent positions as a commissioners or executives of business entities.
Based on Article 17, Eko said, Hadi Prabowo and other public officials in the provincial administration that held dual roles had to choose one position.
He was referring to Sriyadi, Assistant to the provincial administration secretariat, and Danang Atmojo, head of the provincial Bina Marga agency, who also held the positions of commissioner at Bank Jateng and president commissioner of PT Trans Marga Jateng (PT TMJ) respectively.
Both Bank Jateng and PT Trans Marga Jateng are provincial administration-owned enterprises.
Dual roles, according to Eko, were prone to corruption, collusion and nepotism.
"This is very dangerous because BUMDs – especially Bank Jateng – manages the provincial administration's money as well as the money of the 35 regency and municipality administrations across Central Java," he said. He urged Central Java Governor Bibit Waluyo and the province's regents and mayors to intervene and make public officials holding dual roles choose one position. "If necessary, impose stern sanctions on them," Eko said.
The KP2KKN has been an active critic of corruption, collusion and nepotism in the province, which it considers increasingly troubling.
Similar criticism has been expressed by Central Java provincial councillor Bambang Haryanto Baharuddin of the Indonsian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).
He said that if the law really banned public officials from holding concurrent positions in the regional administration and regional administration-owned companies, both Bank Jateng and PT Trans Marga Jateng had to replace Hadi Prabowo and Sriyadi.
The fact is that Bank Jateng is a company whose shares are owned by the provincial administration, he said. As a councillor, he added, he was obligated to remind Bank Jateng to manage itself according to the law.
"It is an important commitment to upholding government that is clean from corruption, collusion and nepotism. As a consequence, provincial administration officials involved in this case must be willing to accept this for the sake of upholding the law," Bambang said.