JAYAPURA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) encourages regional heads and their staff in Papua to be strongly committed to accelerating the achievement of the Regional Government Monitoring Center of Prevention (MCP) in Papua is still below the national average, which is 76 percent.

This was conveyed by the Head of the Regional Prevention Corruption Task Force, Dian Patria, to reporters after the 2023 Papua Region Corruption Prevention Coordination Meeting in Jayapura City, Thursday (11/5/2023).

"The strong commitment from the Regional Head and his staff is needed to accelerate to pass the MCP red zone. By our observations, all local governments in Papua are still below the national average of 76 percent".

"The Papua Provincial Government should also be an example because it is a representative of the central government in the regions," he said.

Meanwhile, the achievement of local government MCP in Papua is the highest at 71 percent, followed by the Jayapura City Government at 69 percent. While the MCP score of the Papua Provincial Government is 56 percent, and the lowest by the Mamberamo Raya Regency Government with a figure of 10 percent

According to Patria, MCP's score is below the national average, indicating that there are still many problems in eight areas of corruption prevention intervention. The most dominant problem in Papua concerns assets and the state civil apparatus (ASN).

"The integrity of the apparatus is problematic, the proof is that assets are still controlled. If the ASN problem is related to ASN management, recruitment, mutation and mission, then LHKPN does not report, so the appointment of employees due to proximity is not competence and others."

"Do we still want corruption? The official service is not returned and makes the procurement of goods and services stalled. We don't allow illegal logging and other violations. So it needs to be addressed in the future so that MCP scores can be better," he said. ***