KPK Proposes To Send A Team To Assist The BLBI Task Force

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) proposes to send a team to assist the Task Force for Handling State Collection Rights for the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance Fund (BLBI Task Force).

"I'm just planning to propose later if possible we also have several task forces (task units) that will participate there. This means, we will collaborate between the Directorate General of State Assets and then the Police, the Attorney General's Office and the KPK together," said Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Karyoto during a press conference at the KPK building, quoted by Antara, Friday, August 27.

Karyoto said that each agency has the authority, such as the Deputy Attorney General for Civil and State Administration (Jamdatun), the Attorney General's Office, whose job is to collect debts from obligors.

"If the Prosecutor's Office, whose Jamdatun collects these obligors. If there is, then all of them have the authority to handle it, if there are many, it's just to be divided up. Until now, preparations have started, then the collections have been made," said Karyoto.

He also said his agency had also been invited by the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD to discuss the handling of the BLBI.

Karyoto said that if the obligors were honest in handing over their assets, there would be no criminal acts.

"I once attended a meeting with Mr. Mahfud too, we were deliberately ordered to come. BLBI is if indeed the obligors are honest in handing over for example how much of their assets honestly, yes, maybe there will be no crime, but if for example the assets are marked up' when entering the price it is marked up and then when the price is lowered, these are loopholes, so we were invited to join, later there will be some discussions," he said.

According to him, if there is a potential for criminal acts, it is certain that law enforcement officers will take law enforcement actions.

Previously, Mahfud hoped that BLBI obligors and debtors would fulfill their obligations to settle their debts to the state.

Mahfud emphasized that the relationship between debtors and obligors of BLBI funds with the state is a civil relationship. Therefore, the legal process currently being carried out by the BLBI Task Force against 48 BLBI obligors or debtors is a civil legal process.

Nevertheless, he said, the civil relationship was determined or decided by the Supreme Court within the framework of the determination or relationship made by the National Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) with obligors and debtors.

"Nowadays, it is the state's right to collect," he said.

Therefore, said Mahfud, although the government will fully seek to resolve it as a civil law or civil processes, it is not impossible if later in the journey it can contain or be accompanied by criminal acts.