Profile Ridwan Djamaluddin, Former Director General Of Mineral And Coal Suspect For Nickel Mine Corruption

Former Director General of Mineral and Coal at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ridwan Djamaluddin, is a suspect in the alleged corruption case of mining nickel ore. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Former Director General of Mineral and Coal (Dirjen Minerba) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Ridwan Djamaluddin has been officially detained by the Attorney General's Office as a suspect in the alleged corruption case of nickel ore mining in the mining business permit area (IUP) of PT Antam in Mandiodo Block, North Konawe Regency (Konut), Southeast Sulawesi (Sultra), Wednesday, August 9.

It is suspected that Ridwan, who is also the former Acting Governor of Bangka Belitung, is suspected of having cost the state Rp5.7 trillion.

It should be noted that Ridwan served as Director General of Mineral and Coal from 2020 to 2023. During his tenure as Director General, he also served as Acting (PJ) Governor of the Bangka Belitung Islands (Babel) and was sworn in on May 12, 2022.

At the same time, he also held the position of Commissioner of the BUMN Mining Holding, MIND ID, which was later removed on July 16 through the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (EGMS).

Before taking part in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and holding the position of Echelon I, Ridwan also served as Deputy for Natural Resources Development Technology at the Agency for the Assessment of Technology from 2010 to 2015.

From siyu, her career skyrocketed and became Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan's subordinate while serving as Deputy for Infrastructure and Transportation Coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment from 2015 to 2020.

Ridwan is a geologist who graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) majoring in Geology and graduated in December 1989.

Ridwan won his master's degree for ITC at the University of Twenty. For his doctoral degree, Ridwan earned his doctorate at Texas A&M University majoring in Geographic on May 17, 1999.

Previously, the Indonesian Attorney General's Office named two new suspects in a case that cost the state finances Rp5.7 trillion.

"Regarding the case at the Southeast Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office, which has so far named 10 suspects, today we have named two suspects. So the two suspects are from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources," said Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office Ketut Sumedana in his statement, Wednesday 9 August.

The two suspects were then detained at the Salemba Detention Center at the Attorney General's Office for 20 days starting from August 9 to 28. After the case is declared complete, the two suspects will be detained at the Southeast Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office.