The KPK Will Explore The Plan To Give Rp100 Million To The Director General In The Case Of Bribery For The Rail Project

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will investigate allegations of a plan to hand over Rp100 million to the Director General of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub).

The information was conveyed in a trial for alleged bribery for the construction and maintenance of the railway line on Thursday, July 20. The money is said to be intended to provide holiday allowances (THR) to a number of officials at the ministry.

"We ensure that this information will also be explored further," Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri in a written statement, Friday, July 21.

Although the money has not been given, an investigation will be carried out. "In the ongoing investigation process," said Ali.

During the trial, the judge had investigated the Rp1 billion in cash referred to by the THR to the Director General of Railways at the Ministry of Transportation.

The KPK in this case named 10 suspects for alleged bribery related to the construction and maintenance of railway lines within the Directorate General of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation for Fiscal Year 2018-2022. Six recipients are the Director of Railway Infrastructure Harno Trimadi; Commitment Making Officer (PPK) of the Central Java Railway Engineering Center (BTP) Bernard Hasibuan; and Head of Central Java BTP Putu Sumarjaya.

Then there is also the PPK of the South Sulawesi Railway Management Center (BPKA) Achmad Affandi; PPK for Rail Infrastructure, Fadliansyah; and the West Java BTP (Jabagbar) PPK Syntheto Pirjani Hutabarat.

While the rest were bribe givers, namely the Director of PT Istana Putra Agung, Dion Renato Sugiarto; Director of PT Dwifarita Fajarkharisma, Muchamad Hikmat; Vice President of PT KA Management Properti, Parjono; and former Director of PT KA Management Properti, Yoseph Ibrahim.

The anti-corruption commission suspects that six officials from the Ministry of Transportation's DJKA received bribes worth Rp. 14.5 billion related to four railway projects in Indonesia.

The four projects suspected of being the bancakan are the Solo Balapan-Kadipiro-Kalioso Double railway line construction project; a railway line construction project in Makassar, South Sulawesi; four railway construction projects and two supervision projects in Lampegan Cianjur, West Java; and a project to repair the Java-Sumatra level crossing.