During The First Semester Of 2023, The Attorney General's Office Expressed Handling Corruption Cases Of More Than IDR 152 Trillion

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The Indonesian Attorney General's Office revealed the performance of the prosecutor's office in handling corruption cases until the first half of 2023. The special criminal field (Pidsus) succeeded in handling cases with state losses reaching Rp152.2 trillion as part of the celebration of the 63rd Adhyaksa Bhakti Day.

The Head of the Indonesian Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, conveyed this information in a written statement in Jakarta on Saturday. This value is the result of a number of cases that have been handled by the Special Investigation Division since last year until now.

"In that period, the total state losses that were successfully handled reached IDR 152.247 trillion and 61.948.551 US dollars," he said.

Several major corruption cases are currently being handled by the Pidsus ranks of the Attorney General's Office, such as the BTS 4G infrastructure development project of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology worth IDR 8.32 trillion, as well as corruption in CPO exports or cooking oil worth IDR 6.47 trillion.

Not only that, there were also corruption cases handled the previous year which were still in the process of legal action, such as the case of Duta Palma Group, Jiwasraya, LPEI, and others.

Ketut also added that the Special Investigation Division of the Attorney General's Office had completed 3,397 cases at the execution stage, and 3,923 cases at the prosecution stage. In addition, 2,117 cases have been resolved in the investigation stage.

During this period, the total state losses that were successfully handled included several things, namely: first, the return of state financial losses of Rp42.70 trillion and 61.948.551 US dollars. Second, the return of state economic losses of Rp109.5 trillion, including the cases of PT AMU, LPEI, Garuda Indonesia, cooking oil, Palma Group Ambassador, Taspen, and BTS 4G Kominfo. Furthermore, the return of state financial losses of Rp8.82 trillion, as well as the rescue and recovery of assets from the Jiwasraya Insurance corruption crime worth Rp1.1 trillion.

In the field of asset development or recovery, the Attorney General's Office managed to complete state booty and state confiscated objects worth Rp4.88 trillion, tracing, security, and settlement of assets worth Rp5 trillion, as well as assistance and recovery of ministry/institutional assets worth Rp66.3 billion.

In addition, the performance of the Attorney General's Office for Initial and Procedure Affairs (Datun) is equally important, which handles 35,826 cases of rescue and recovery of state finances, representing the public interest in law enforcement.

"The total state finances that were saved in the Datun Sector reached Rp271.5 trillion and 11.874.569.63 US dollars," he added, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, July 22.

Datun also managed to recover state losses worth IDR 45.5 trillion and USD 1.773.538.55.

Meanwhile, in the Military Crimes Division (Pidmil), the Attorney General's Office carried out technical coordination of prosecutions for 545 cases, including 10 cases at the investigation stage, four cases at the investigation stage, and four cases at the prosecution stage.

At the peak event of the 63rd HBA commemoration attended by President Joko Widodo, the President reminded the role of the Indonesian Attorney General's Office in maintaining and restoring state assets that are very important.

"The role of prosecutors as state lawyers is also very important to protect the interests of the state, prevent misuse of state finances, maintain and return state assets," said President Jokowi in his mandate when he was Inspector of the 63rd Commemoration Ceremony of Bhakti Adhyaksa Day in Jakarta, Saturday.