KORUPTOR DANA HAJI HARUS DIUNGKAP SAMPAI PEJABAT TINGGI
saco-indonesia.com, Koordinator Investigasi Forum Indonesia untuk Transparansi Anggaran (FITRA) Uchok Sky Khadafi, telah mendesak agar Inspektur Jenderal (Irjen) Kementerian Agama M Jasin, untuk segera memperjelas identitas oknum pejabat Kemenag yang telah melakukan korupsi Biaya Penyelenggaraan Ibadah Haji (BPIH). Hal ini dimaksudkan agar Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) lebih mudah untuk mengusut kasus tersebut.
“Jasin harus memperjelas siapa oknum pejabat Kemenag. Kalau oknum tersebut eselonnya rendahan tidak akan sampai pada atasan yang paling tinggi,” kata Uchok.
Yang jelas, kata Uchok, oknum ini akan juga dikorbankan sebagai tumbal pencitraan seolah-olah untuk dapat memperbaiki sistem pengelolaan dana haji.
“Kalau eselon rendahan yang akan dikorbankan, dia dituduh korup, maka persoalan ini tidak akan memperbaiki dalam sistem dana haji. Tetapi hanya menyelamatkan orang-orang yang punya jabatan tinggi,” ujarnya.
Sebelumnya, Inspektur Jenderal (Irjen) Kementerian Agama yang juga mantan Wakil Ketua KPK Bidang Pencegahan, M Jasin juga mengakui ada oknum pejabat Kemenag yang melakukan korupsi Biaya Penyelenggaraan Ibadah Haji (BPIH) untuk membeli rumah dan mobil mewah.
"Ada beberapa orang di Kemenag yang mengambil uang BPIH dan jumlahnya cukup besar. Bahkan ada seorang staf yang melakukan korupsi dan uangnya dipakai untuk beli mobil dan rumah," kata M Jasin.
Nepal’s Young Men, Lost to Migration, Then a Quake
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Many bodies prepared for cremation last week in Kathmandu were of young men from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas.Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.
Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.
“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”
Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.
