Commission III Asks The AGO To Participate In Finding Solutions To Refund Jiwasraya Customers' Funds

JAKARTA - Member of Commission III of the House of Representatives, Taufiq Basari, appreciates the quick step, the Attorney General's Office has named five suspects in the PT Asuransi Jiwasraya default case. Even so, the DPR asked the AGO to join in finding a solution together with the refund of customers' funds.

"The Attorney General asks that one of the studies on how the process concerning this also provides input for customer refunds can be carried out," he said, during a working meeting with the Attorney General's Office, at Commission III of the DPR, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, January 20.

According to Taufik, the legal certainty of the Jiwasraya case can revive the public and investors' trust in the insurance company that has been around since the colonial period.

Taufik said that customers also have high hopes for the Attorney General's Office, not only in handling cases but also in efforts to return funds.

"Because this is related to the wheels of the country's economy. Then public trust in the wheels of the country's economy is investing and so on," he said.

Responding to this, Attorney General ST Burhanuddin said that currently the Attorney General's Office is focused on handling the legal aspects. In investigating this case, the AGO is also coordinating with the Ministry of BUMN in the mechanism for returning customer funds from the aspect of law enforcement.

"We will support the Ministry of BUMN regarding that matter, we will focus on what violations there are to completion," he said.

Burhanuddin said that one of the ways to return customer funds would be by confiscating the assets of the suspects. The AGO is still recording the suspect's total assets to pay in installments the total funds of Jiwasraya customers are paid in stages.

"By confiscating the assets of the five suspects, we did it in order to fulfill customers' funds," he said.