Admin Staff And Kasir Corruption Suspect PT Pos Indonesia Bengkulu Branch Delegated To The Prosecutor's Office

JAKARTA - The Bengkulu City District Attorney's Office (Kejari) received the delegation of two suspects suspected of corruption at PT Pos Indonesia Bengkulu Branch which caused state losses of up to Rp. 3 billion.

Both are administrative staff for the finance department Heni Ferlina and cashier Rieka Jayanti. The delegation was carried out after all the case files were declared complete by the Bengkulu High Prosecutor's Office (Kajati) investigators.

"The second phase of delegation was carried out after investigators stated that the case files of the two suspects were complete formally and materially," said Plh. Head of the Legal Information Section of the Bengkulu Attorney General's Office, Denny Agustian, in Bengkulu City, Monday, was confiscated by Antara.

According to him, based on the results of the examination, the two suspects were suspected of manipulating financial transactions related to stamp funds, paying retirees, and a number of other funds that were not officially registered in the state accounting system.

Then, the audit team found a significant difference in recording, so that the findings strengthened the alleged practice of financial manipulation carried out systematically by the two suspects.

On the other hand, the Head of the Special Criminal Prosecution Section (Pidsus) of the Bengkulu Attorney General's Office, Arief Wirawan, said that based on the results of the intensive examination during the investigation process, the pattern of alleged irregularities that became the basis of the corruption case of PT Posindo Bengkulu Branch.

With the alleged state loss that reached Rp3 billion, he said, it was an accumulation of transactions that were manipulated in stages.

Therefore, according to him, the two suspects were detained for 20 days, starting today, December 1, 2025 to December 20, 2025 in order to expedite the prosecution process as well as prevent potential disappearance of evidence or attempts to escape.

Previously, the Bengkulu Attorney General's Office named the two suspects, Heni Ferlina and Rieka Jayanti, regarding the alleged corruption case at PT Pos Indonesia Bengkulu main branch, with the mode of cutting and misuse of stamp funds, to public pension funds which were carried out from 2022-2024 so that the state suffered a loss of around Rp. 3 billion.

Head of the Investigation Section of the Bengkulu Attorney General's Office, Danang Prasetyo, explained that the two had a role in the manipulation of the balance sheet at the Bengkulu Main Branch PT Pos Office.

"For stamp funds and pension funds, the public should have been deposited to the center, but it should not have been used by the person at the Bengkulu branch of the Indonesian Post Office," he said.

For their actions, according to him, the two suspects were subject to Article 2 and 3 Junto Article 18 of Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption, Junto Article 55 of the Criminal Code.