Sritex Received An Order For Covid-19 Social Assistance Bag Corrupted By Juliari Batubara, But Not Gibran's Recommendation

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 social assistance (Bansos) corruption case dragged the name of PT Sri Rejeki Isman Tbk or Sritex. This is because Srirex allegedly received a recommendation from Gibran Rakabuming Raka to make a social assistance bag or goodie bag.

Responding to this, Head of Corporate Communication Sritex Joy Citradewi confirmed that her party received an order for goodie bags for social assistance (bansos) COVID-19 from the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos).

However, Joy argued that the company's contribution to the social assistance program in the form of staples came from the recommendation of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) 's son, the Mayor of Surakarta elected Gibran Rakabuming.

"It is true that we supply goodie bags for the Ministry of Social Affairs. For recommendations, none from Gibran," he said, when contacted VOI, Monday, December 21.

Joy explained that participation in the program started from a meeting between the Ministry of Social Affairs and the company. Unfortunately, Joy was unable to explain the number of orders and the value of the contracts that her party received with the government.

"Quality and contract value have a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA). We are approached by the Ministry of Social Affairs for this fulfillment because there is an urgent need," he said.

As a result of being dragged into the issue of Gibran's recommendation regarding the COVID-19 social assistance bag, the shares of PT Sri Rejeki Isman Tbk (Sritex) this morning suddenly slid into the red zone. Quoting RTI data, until 9:45 p.m. JATS time, this SRIL coded stock had fallen 2.82 percent or 8 points from the previous close of Rp284 to Rp276.

As is known, the social assistance project received the spotlight after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) appointed Social Minister Juliari Peter Batubara and four other suspects as recipients and givers of bribes related to the social assistance program for handling COVID-19.

The other four suspects in this case are, the officials making the commitment at the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) Matheus Joko Santoso and Adi Wahyono, as well as Ardian IM and Harry Sidabuke as private parties.

The KPK suspects Juliari to receive Rp10 thousand from each food package worth Rp.300 thousand per package. In total, the KPK suspects Juliari Batubara to have received Rp8.2 billion and Rp.8.8 billion.

As recipients, Juliari, Adi and Matheus were charged with Article 12 letter a or Article 12 letter b or Article 11 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph ( 1) 1st KUHP.

Meanwhile, as givers, Ardian and Harry were suspected of violating Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a or Article 5 paragraph (1) letter b or Article 13 of Law Number 31 Year 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 Year 2001 regarding Corruption Eradication.