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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD said that nearly 92 percent of the candidates District chief spread throughout Indonesia funded by cukong.
On average, Mahfud said, after being elected, these regional chief candidates will give feedback in the form of policies that benefit the cukong.
“Everywhere, 92 percent of candidates are financed by cukong and once elected, it creates political corruption,” Mahfud said speaking in a discussion on the topic of Ensuring a Healthy Pilkada: Maintaining Covid-19 and Corruption. away from Covid-19 and corruption, which was broadcast through the official YouTube channel Pusako. FH Unand, Friday (9/11).
Since direct Pilkada, where the electoral system is run by the people, Mahfud said, many Cukong have sown seeds with the Pilkada contestants.
Mahfud did not say that the candidates who were financed by the cukong were also in the Simultaneous Pilkada 2020 which had started the stages. He only said that cooperation between the regional head candidates and the cukong will surely happen.
This reciprocal relationship often takes the form of policies given by candidates for regional chiefs who have been officially elected to the cukong. What happened then, Mahfud said, the impact of cooperation with the cukong was more dangerous than monetary corruption.
Policy corruption, Mahfud said, generally takes the form of forest tenure licenses, mining licenses and other licenses that are more damaging to the community.
“Policy corruption is more dangerous than money corruption. Money can be counted, but if the policy is in the form of forest tenure licenses, mine control licenses, which after examination, overlap,” he said .
“Because there is a law that states, for example, that a regent can grant mining exploration licenses for a certain percentage of the area of the area,” Mahfud said.
In practice, Mahfud said, the license was granted more broadly than it should have been. In fact, not a few regional chiefs also took the initiative to open new licenses for the cukong who had helped finance the campaign period during the previous Pilkada.
The head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Nurul Ghufron, also revealed the problem of the cukong Pilkada. In a study conducted by the KPK, up to 82 percent of the Regional Head candidates were funded by sponsors.
“In fact, in a previous KPK study, 82 percent of the regional head candidates were funded by sponsors, not personally funded,” he said.
From here, Ghufron said, corrupt practices occurred during the Pilkada.
“So let’s go like money policy so it shows that there will be a flow of funds from the sponsors to the candidates for regional chiefs, ”he said.
(tst / gil)
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