Jakarta (Antara) - Nineteen police officers, including six retirees, have applied for leadership posts of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), according to Betti Alisjahbana, the spokeswoman of the KPK leadership selection committee (Pansel).

"From the police, there are 19 applicants, including six retirees," she noted in a short text message on Tuesday.

Other applicants include two active military officers, two military retirees, three attorneys, three judges, two from the KPK, and four journalists.

Until Monday afternoon (June 29), the committee had received applications from 496 people, including 42 women.

"The 217 applicants have submitted the complete documents, and the documents of 64 others are almost complete," she revealed.

Based on the professions of the applicants, 78 are civil servants, 72 lecturers, 71 advocates, 59 private workers, 42 retirees, 29 entrepreneurs, 19 police officers, four military officers, 3 judges, 3 attorneys, 2 KPK officials, and four journalists.

The applications will be accepted until noon of July 3 at the latest, and the team will announce the names of the people who have cleared the selection process on July 4.

The names of the selected candidates will be published on the State Secretariat's website: www.setneg.go.id.

The selection team will invite the public to give their opinions about the nominees from July 4 to August 3, 2015.

"We will provide a special space on our website www.setneg.go.id for the public to give their responses," she noted.

She expressed hope that every response will include supporting data and information.

"The KPK belongs to us. Everyone needs to play a role in the selection of the KPK leadership in order to find the best," Alisjahbana remarked.

On May 21, 2015, President Joko Widodo officially appointed and announced nine women as the members of the KPK Pansel.

The president appointed economic analyst Destry Damayanti and state administrative legal expert Enny Nurbayaningsih as the committee's head and deputy head respectively.

Other members of the team include Harkristuti Haskrisnowo, a criminal law and human rights expert; Betty Alisjabana, a technology, information and management analyst; Yenti Garnasih, a money laundering and criminal law expert; noted psychologist Supri Wimbarti; Natalia Subagio, the chairwoman of Transparency International Indonesia; Diani Sadiawati, the director of legal human rights at the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas); and Meuthia Ganie-Rochman, an expert on corruption sociology and social capital.(*)

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