Month: April 2022

G20 member states have expressed support for the four priority issues presented by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) at the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group (ACWG) meeting, KPK’s Deputy for Information and Data Mochamad Hadiyana said.

Delegates from G20 countries expressed their support for the four priority issues in the first round of the ACWG meeting from March 28 to 31, 2022.

“The ACWG meeting in the G20 Indonesian Presidency went smoothly, especially the four priority issues that we presented received support from G20 member countries,” Hadiyana, who is also the ACWG chair, informed here on Friday.

He said the discussion on the four priority issues will be continued in the second round of the ACWG meetings in July.

The four priority issues cover the role of audits in combating corruption, public participation and anti-corruption education, supervision of ‘professional enablers’ in money laundering crimes, and the eradication of corruption in the renewable energy sector, he pointed out.

According to Hadiyana, the first issue, which is included in the High-Level Principle, will be a binding policy document.

“The excellent progress in discussing the HLP issue was an achievement that would be a milestone for Indonesia in the G20 Presidency,” he said.

Furthermore, on the second issue, the delegates will submit a questionnaire distributed by the Indonesian Presidency that will be assembled as a compendium, which is due on April 18, 2022.

Then, on the third issue, the delegates will send their documents as a compendium, which is due in July or during the second round of ACWG meetings.

Exposure to several groups of participants and a joint session with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) can be used to enrich the draft background note, Hadiyana explained.

“We hope that the support of G20 member states and all groups of participants in the first round of the G20 ACWG can continue by filling out and submitting documents for the compendium based on the deadline,” he added.

Source: Antara News

The Indonesian Government has vowed to give the same protection to all Indonesian migrant workers (PMI), whether they have procedural or nonprocedural status, Presidential Chief of Staff (KSP) Moeldoko has emphasized.

“Whether the migrant workers are procedural or nonprocedural, they all must be protected. This has become the commitment of Mr. President (Joko Widodo),” Moeldoko said during a coordination meeting on the protection of PMI working in Singapore, here on Friday.

At the meeting held by the KSP with ministries and institutions to accelerate the resolution of problems experienced by PMIs in Singapore, Moeldoko reaffirmed that the government has never been indiscriminate in providing protection for PMI.

The meeting highlighted the number of cases in which PMIs in Singapore left their employers due to issues such as salary problems, inharmonious relationships, communication failure, language barriers, to legal issues.

According to the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore, of the total PMI experiencing these problems, 75 percent had nonprocedural status, meaning whose departure and placement were not through official channels. Once they arrived in Singapore, they were accepted by the agency and declared official PMIs.

“This fact causes the government to have less flexibility in providing protection to nonprocedural PMIs,” Moeldoko explained.

However, he highlighted that the related ministries and institutions have made maximum efforts to mitigate the departure of nonprocedural Indonesian migrant workers.

“Such as cutting procedures in PMI departure, placement, to tightening (of supervision) at departure points,” he said.

However, these efforts have not been able to minimize the surge in nonprocedural migrant workers leaving for some countries, especially Singapore, he added.

Therefore, he invited all parties, including society, to use procedural means to migrate for work to other countries.

“We encourage the Home Affairs Ministry to involve local governments from provinces, districts/cities, to the village level, to participate in supervising and collecting data, especially on PMIs,” he added.

Source: Antara News