KPK Urged To Develop Corruption Cases For North Sumatra Road Projects And Check Bobby Nasution

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) urges the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to examine North Sumatra Governor Bobby Nasution.

This pressure was conveyed by ICW when holding an action at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta on Friday, November 14.

Bobby should have been investigated regarding the bribery case for the road construction project at the North Sumatra PUPR Service and the project at the North Sumatra PJN Working Unit.

"We are demanding the KPK to examine Bobby in the corruption case of the construction of the Sipionot Labuhan Batu and Kutaibaru Sipiongot roads," ICW researcher Zararah Azim Syah told reporters at the location.

Zararah said this demand also arose because the Medan Corruption Court Panel of Judges had ordered the KPK Prosecutor to present Bobby in court.

In addition, Zararah said, Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Johanis Tanak said Bobby would be questioned if there was an official order. "Well, there is already a legal basis, there is already an order," he said.

Even if Bobby was not presented at the trial, ICW demanded that the KPK develop this corruption case. This step can be taken through the facts revealed in court.

Moreover, there are facts about the North Sumatra Provincial Budget four times in order to include this road project in budgeting.

"So it should be in this case, if there are new clues from the trial, the KPK should develop a case like that. So open new cases. Well, let alone develop cases, but to check Bobby doesn't dare. Why? Because corruption in the procurement of goods and services is usually corruption, it is usually big if the KPK wants to pursue intellectual actors, it is in the planning stage," said Zararah.

The panel of judges at the Medan District Court some time ago was known to have asked the anti-corruption commission prosecutor to present Bobby Nasution as a witness. This order was conveyed after Muhammad Haldun as Secretary of the North Sumatra PUPR Service who was presented as a witness in the trial revealed the shift in budget through the Governor Regulation (Pergub) for the implementation of road construction projects.

At that time, Haldun said that the two-way budgets that were the object of corruption were Sipiongot Sections, namely the Labuhan Batu and Sipionot Hutaimbaru in North Padang Lawas with a total value of Rp165 billion not allocated in the 2025 pure APBD. This project is financed from funds of a number of offices that are legalized through the Governor's Regulation.

Hearing this testimony, Judge Khamozaro Waruwu asked Bobby to be presented. "If there is a risk to the shift in the budget, who is responsible? When the mechanism for shifting the budget does not work, the governor must be responsible," he said.

Apart from Bobby, the judge also asked the prosecutor to present the Acting Regional Secretary of North Sumatra at that time, Effendy Pohan, for questioning regarding the legal basis of the Governor's Regulation which was said to have been changed six times.

Meanwhile, the judge tried two defendants from the private sector, namely the President Director of PT Dalihan Na Tolu Group, Muhammad Akhirun Piliang and the Director of PT Rona Mora, Muhammad Rayhan Dulasmi.

This case also ensnared the former Head of the North Sumatra PUPR Service, Topan Obaja Putra Ginting, who was said to be a close person to Bobby Nasution. However, he has not been tried because the files have not been transferred to court.