University students take part on a protest outside Indonesia's anti-graft agency, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Jakarta on Sept 27, 2021. - Reuters
JAKARTA, Oct 2 (Reuters): Dozens of employees controversially removed from Indonesia's anti-graft agency will appeal their dismissal, staff members have announced, fighting what they saw as a move to weaken a body that prosecuted hundreds of politicians and businessmen.
Fifty-seven KPK staff were fired after being told they had failed a civil service exam, the results of which they said have been withheld. The Ombudsman and human rights commission suspected maladministration and the KPK has defended the exam.
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