The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Workers Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) this Wednesday morning (6/2) at KPK’s Red and White Building in Jakarta.
The signing aimed to increase cooperation and coordination in eradicating corruption in Indonesia’s manpower sector.
“This MoU is expected to prevent corruption at manpower sector. Workers’ rights must be protected because the fund comes from people. You have to be cautious about it,” said KPK Chairman Agus Rahardjo.
Fifteen million workers are registered with BPJS Ketenegakerjaan, of whom 30.5 million actively pay the fee that reached a total of Rp370 trillion. Therefore, Agus said, the monitoring must be strengthened to prevent embezzlement that can inflict losses to people.
“This is a public mandate because the BPJS fund comes from the people,” he said.
BPJS Ketenagakerjaan President Director Agus Susanto said his company has strong commitment to create corruption-free manpower sector in Indonesia. He mapped several sectors that are going to be strengthened, including infrastructure and human resources.
“In terms of infrastructure, we will establish a division to oversee the implementation of good governance. Secondly, we will strengthen human resources capacity building,” he said.
Agus Susanto said he expected all employees of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan to improve their knowledge on the values of anticorruption culture. The company currently employs 6,000 people and 350 Tunas Integritas (Integrity Bud), with the latter is anticorruption agent spreading anticorruption culture values, he said. Agus added that he wanted the integrity bud to spread the values externally.
KPK and BPJS Ketenagakerjaan agreed on the following coverages: Data and information exchange; corruption crime prevention; education, training and information dissemination; review and research; resource person; and other coverage agreed by both parties. The MoU was signed by Agus Rahardjo and Agus Susanto, witnessed by BPJS Ketenagakerjaan Board of Directors Head Guntur Witjaksono, and structural officials of both institutions.
