Dili – About 212 applicants were competing at writing test to join Comissão Anti-Corrupção (CAC) for the position of 10 investigators at National Police Academy Comoro Dili on Friday (14/11) last week. Today, Monday (17/11) another 195 applicants also compete in a writing test for four administrations vacant at Canossian School Has Laran, Dili. Total applicants who took the writing test for 14 vacant at CAC are 407 applicants.
CAC will recruit 10 more investigators to complete total 15 current investigators. CAC works together with Prosecutor General’s office and National Police during the process of recruitment for investigators and Public Service Commission for CAC officials as public servants.
“CAC conduct recruitment for 10 investigators this year and also recruit 4 more public servants to the positions of Study and Analysis of BoQ Officer, Legal and Politic Officer, Civic Education Officer and a Researcher,” said CAC Human Resources Officer, Luis Ersio Guterres.
In this year recruitment, about six CAC officials have been disqualified to join the recruitment process as investigator by the Senior Management. Three National Police officials also been disqualified as their general Commands have not allowed them to join the CAC recruitment process.
This recruitment process as first recruitment conduct by CAC under newly elected Commissioner Leadership of Second Mandate, Adérito Tilman that inaugurated by the National Parliament on 15th of July 2014. CAC has 65 officials that comprising of 15 investigators and 50 officials. (*)

Jakarta – To enhance staffs’ capacity and improve service quality of Commisão Anti-Corrupção (CAC) in preventing and eradicating corruption, 10 officials of CAC were sent to conduct On-Job Training program at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for three weeks. The training conducted on October 13 to 31, financed by GIZ through a Bilateral Cooperation between Government of Timor-Leste and Federal Republic of Germany.

The objective of this program is to improve staffs capacity through a process of study, knowledge and skills sharing with KPK Indonesia, that known for its achievement in preventing and combating corruption.

CAC delegation, comprising of 11 officials led by Executive Secretary of CAC Alexander Freitas and was welcomed by three KPK commissioners, Abraham Samad, Zulkarnain and Bambang Widjojanto at KPK Office Kuningan Jakarta, Indonesia.

Chief of KPK Commissioner Abraham Samad expressed his gratitude and applauded the decision of CAC leadership to send its officials to share the knowledge and experience between two Commissions of the two neighboring countries.  Abraham shared the experience of 11 years standing Commission, from limited infrastructure, personnel limitation to a broader area of Indonesia. “Maybe this is impossible. But Thanks God, with hard work and dedication, we can still exist to fight corruption in Indonesia.”

With that limitation, said Abraham, the Commission determines its priority in case handling. But, he regrets, despite of all dedication and commitment, KPK still receives critics from certain society that the KPK it is often “selective” in handling the case.

“In the scale of priorities, we also have focus area to some sectors; energy security and the environment, plus defense, revenue and infrastructure. We look at these four sectors that involve lives of many people” Abraham explained.

KPK Deputy Chairman Bambang Widjojanto added, the Commission is aware that corruption in Indonesia is different from what happened in other countries. “Here, corruption is massive, systematic and well-organized. Therefore, eradication must be done progressively,” Bambang said in reference to the integration between enforcement and prevention programs.

Meanwhile, CAC Commissioner Adérito Tilman expressed gratitude to KPK for the willingness to share experience and knowledge with CAC. He emphasized that fighting corruption is a very tough task, therefore with all due efforts we send our staffs to learn from KPK.

“I truly believe this on-job-training will be of great benefit to CAC especially to our 10 staffs that will be mentored and have firsthand experience of how KPK is exercising its mandates and implementing day to day work,” Said Commissioner Tilman.

He hoped that 10 CAC staffs will gain knowledge and utilize it optimally for the fight against corruption in Timor-Leste. (*)