Kesbangpol NTB Examined About Alleged Corruption In The Provision Of Clean Water In Gili Trawangan

Kesbangpol NTB Ruslan Abdul Gani fulfills the summons of the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Tuesday 18 February. (Between)

NTB - Head of the National and Political Unity Agency (Kesbangpol) of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Ruslan Abdul Gani fulfills the summons of the NTB High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati).

Ruslan was examined as a witness who served as Head of the Legal Bureau of the NTB Regional Secretariat when the alleged corruption in the collaboration between PT Gerbang NTB Emas (GNE) and PT Berkah Air Laut (BAL) regarding the provision of clean water in the Gili Trawangan tourist area, North Lombok Regency.

"Asked about the cooperation agreement between PT GNE and PT BAL regarding water in Trawangan. I don't know about that," said Ruslan after fulfilling a summons at the NTB Prosecutor's Office Building, Tuesday, February 18 afternoon, which was confiscated by Antara.

He admitted that PT GNE's cooperation as a regional company with PT BAL from the private sector in 2021 to 2022 was without his knowledge as Head of the Legal Bureau of the NTB Secretariat.

"I was a legal officer from 2016 to 2022, and the cooperation was not through the legal bureau, so I don't know what the prosecutor asked me (PT GNE's cooperation agreement with PT BAL)," he said.

In fact, after the cooperation in providing clean water in the Gili Trawangan tourist area, Ruslan said that PT GNE as the NTB BUMD had never reported or built coordination with the Legal Bureau of the NTB Secretariat.

Head of the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Enen Saribanon, previously said that his party is now handling this case in the investigation stage.

There are two former Heads of the NTB ESDM Service who have undergone examination on Monday (17/2). They are Muhammad Husni and Zainal Abidin who are now convicts in the iron sand mining corruption case in the Dedalpak Block.

The issue of providing clean water in Gili Trawangan was revealed that he had been included in the investigation by the NTB Police until he went to court at the Mataram District Court.

Samsul Hadi and William Johnmen as two company directors who built cooperation in providing clean water in Gili Trawangan were sentenced to 1 year in prison with a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to 3 months in prison on October 31, 2024.

The actions of the two were found guilty of violating Article 70 letter d in conjunction with Article 49 paragraph (2) and paragraph (1) of Law Number 6 of 2023 concerning Stipulation of Government Regulations in Lieu of Law Number 2 of 2022 concerning Job Creation.

The judge applied the indictment by stating that the defendant William John cap has been proven to have committed a criminal act, namely intentionally providing clean water without a business permit from November 2019 to October 2022.

Against Samsul Hadi, the judge stated that the defendant's actions as director of PT GNE had been proven to have committed a criminal act by deliberately giving William John airing as Director of PT BAL to run a business without obtaining a valid business license in accordance with government regulations.

In addition to environmental issues, the NTB Police also handled the alleged corruption. However, the alleged corruption related to the government's capital investment budget to PT GNE as the organizer of the regional drinking water supply system (SPAM) in 2019-2022 was stopped at the investigation stage.

The status of termination is in accordance with the issuance of the Decree on Termination of Investigation Number: S.Tap/52/XII/2023/Ditreskrimsus dated December 29, 2023.

The decree on the termination of the investigation was issued in Mataram and signed by the Director of Special Criminal Investigation (Dirreskrimsus) of the NTB Police, Kombes Pol. Nasrun Pasaribu on behalf of the NTB Police Chief as an investigator.

In the letter, the NTB Police stopped the investigation originating from reports or public complaints about alleged corruption in the form of abuse of authority and position by considering the results of the case title on December 20, 2023.

The NTB Regional Police stated that the report did not fulfill the elements of the article as stipulated in Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001.

In the letter it was stated that based on the results of the examination at the level of investigation, it was deemed necessary to stop the investigation by issuing a decree to terminate the investigation.