The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Calls South Jakarta District Court Judge Should Reject SYL's Pretrial

Head of KPK News Section Ali Fikri (Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) assesses that the South Jakarta District Court (PN Jaksel) judges should reject the pretrial lawsuit filed by former Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo. The investigation is confirmed to have been in accordance with applicable regulations. "We ensure that all process of investigating the case with the SYL suspect, we ensure that the KPK has complied with all the criminal procedural laws and other related provisions," said Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri to reporters, Monday, November 6. "So of course we are very sure that the application in question should be rejected by the judge," he continued. Ali emphasized that the anti-corruption commission would follow the pretrial trial process. The Legal Bureau Team will be present at the South Jakarta District Court. The information we received today is true that the KPK Legal Bureau Team is present," he said. Previously, the South Jakarta District Court postponed Syahrul's pretrial hearing last week, Monday, October 30. KPK as the requested at that time was not present. Syahrul filed a lawsuit because he did not accept his status as a suspect in the Ministry of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture) corruption case. This case is registered with Number 114/Pid.Pra/2023/PN JKT.SEL.In this case, the NasDem Party politician called the KPK extorted its employees by requiring to pay monthly deposits with the help of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Kasdi Subagyono, and the Director of the Ministry of Agriculture Tool Muhammad Hatta. The nominal thing that Syahrul set and had to be paid by echelon I-II employees ranging from 4,000-10,000 US dollars.

The money collected is believed to have come from not only the realization of the Ministry of Agriculture's budget inflated or mark-ups but from vendors working on projects. The money is given in cash, transfers or goods. KPK then suspects that the money Syahrul received was used for various personal interests. Starting from Umrah with other Ministry of Agriculture employees, buying cars, repairing houses to flowing to the NasDem Party with a value of up to billions of rupiah.