2 Officials At The Ministry Of Manpower Allegedly KPK Conditioned The Winner Of The Auction For The Procurement Of The TKI Protection System
JAKARTA - Investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) are questioning Agus Ramdhany, who is a member of the working group (pokja) for the implementation of the Indonesian labor protection system (TKI) at the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker). He was asked about the alleged consolidation of project auction winners.
Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri said Agus was questioned by investigators on Wednesday, September 19. It is suspected that there is an official at the ministry who regulates certain companies.
"It was also confirmed regarding the alleged order from two officials at the Ministry of Manpower at that time who (now, red) became suspects in this case to condition the company that won the auction," Ali told reporters, Wednesday, September 20.
Ali has not detailed the two Ministry of Manpower officials who are now suspects. However, based on the information obtained, they are the Secretary of the Planning and Development Agency of the Ministry of Manpower I Nyoman Darmanta and the former Director General of the Ministry of Manpower who is now the Chairman of the Bali PKB DPW Reyna Usman.
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As previously reported, the KPK has announced that three suspects have been named in the case of procuring the protection system. Although not yet detailed, Nyoman and Reyna are said to be entangled with a private person.
In investigating this case, there are a number of witnesses who have been examined. One of them is the former Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin who served for the 2009-2014 period on Thursday, September 7th. The value of the information system procurement project which is suspected to be part of the perpetrators reached around Rp. 20 billion. Deputy Chairman Alexander Marwata said that this system was allegedly corrupted until it finally could not be used to monitor migrant workers. Only computers can be used to type and so on. But, the system itself is not running," he said to reporters in Jakarta, Thursday, August 24.