Bengkulu Prosecutor's Office Examines Head Of BKM And Facilitator Samisake Related To Corruption Cases

The Bengkulu Kejari investigating team during a search related to the Samisake corruption case. BETWEEN ANTARA/Anggi Mayasari

BENGKULU - The Bengkulu Special Criminal Investigation Team (Kejari) conducted an examination of two witnesses related to the alleged corruption case of the one billion one kelurahan (samisake) program in 2013. The two witnesses were the Chairperson of the Advanced Community Empowerment Agency (BKM) with Rawa Makmur Village, Bengkulu City, HI, and the DI Samisake facilitator. "It is true that today after the search conducted yesterday at the BKM Maju office with Rawa Makmur Village and the residence of the Chairman of the Maju Bersama BKM, the investigative team asked for information from two witnesses, namely DI," said Head of the Samisake Agustian Investigation Team in Bengkulu City, as reported by Antara, Friday, September 22. The examination of the two witnesses related to the signing of the criminal minutes and will still be resumed on September 25, 2023. Meanwhile, HI explained that the distribution and Samisake program in 2013 which was carried out by his party amounting to Rp400 million was in accordance with applicable rules and mechanisms and had complete documents as evidence. In addition, all recipients of the Samisake program whose distribution is through BKM Maju Bersama have also been questioned by the Bengkulu Kejari Special Prosecutor's Office investigators. "I am very cooperative in fulfilling the summons of the Bengkulu Kejari Special Prosecutor's Office investigators and have honestly explained all the things regarding the distribution of Samisake program funds in 2013 which he knew and he was sure there were no problems, everything went smoothly, even though from Rp. 400 million, the total Samisake funds he managed had arrears of Rp. 200 million," he said. Previously, the Bengkulu Kejari conducted another search at two locations related to the investigation into the one billion-one-kelurahan (samisake) program corruption case in 2013. The related search was carried out at the Office of the Advanced Community Empowerment Agency (BKM) Together and at the house of the Chairman of the Maju Bersama BKM, precisely in Rawa Makmur Village, Bengkulu City. The results of the search at the two points were that the Bengkulu Kejari Special Investigation Team carried two large suitcases containing hundreds of files which were suspected to have something to do with the investigation of alleged Samisake corruption. The search was carried out in order to follow up on the previous case, which was determined by four suspects, namely Mandiri City Wattamwil Mall Manager ZP, Sanif Mandiri AM Cooperative Chairperson, Skip Mandiri RH Cooperative and Skip Mandiri JL Cooperative Treasurer. Based on the results of an audit from the 2019 Indonesian Financial Audit Agency (BPK) and the Bengkulu City Samisake program, it was found that the recipients received a bad contribution of Rp. 13 billion.

Meanwhile, based on the results of an independent audit requested by the Bengkulu City Government, it was known that of the Rp13 billion findings, Rp1 billion had been deposited into the UPTD Regional Public Service Agency (BLUD) and the remaining Rp12 billion had to be recovered according to BPK RI's advice.