KPK Ends Alleged 5 Million Tons Of Nickel Ore Exported Illegally To China

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigated allegations of exporting illegal nickel ore from January 2020 to June 2022. These mining products were sent from Indonesia to China. "(The alleged illegal export ore nickel, red) January 2020 to June 2022. The source of the Chinese Customs website," said Head of the Coordination and Supervision Task Force Region V of the KPK Dian Patria to reporters, Friday, June 23. Dian said there were five million tons of illegal nickel ore sent to China based on his studies. However, Dian said that the data on the customs site did not include detailed information on the origin of exports. "It should come from the granary of the Sulawesi and North Maluku nickelore," he stressed. Furthermore, the results of the task force study are already in the Monitoring Directorate under the Deputy for Monitoring and Prevention of the KPK. These findings will be followed up to produce recommendations for the next step. "Friends (at the Directorate, red) Monitoring are currently studying. We will see what kind of recommendations are. I am the function of coordination and supervision of prevention," said Dian.

He also said that the findings could not be linked to criminal elements. "It is still far (to be followed up on prosecution, ed). (The allegation, red) corruption if there is for example the flow of bribes to state officials," said Dian. For information, President Joko Widodo previously imposed a ban on nickel exports since January 1, 2020 through the Regulation of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources No.11/2019. The prohibition of exports for downstreaming in the country even drew a lawsuit from the European Union.