Samarinda Transportation Agency Employees Cooperate With Parking Attendants To Open Accounts For Corruption In Parking Funds

Illustration. Transportation Service (Dishub) employees control illegal parking. (ANTARA PHOTO-Vitalis Yogi Trisna

Head of the Samarinda City Transportation Service (Dishub) Hotmarulitua Manalu revealed that his members and parking attendants (jukir) were suspected of being involved in corruption in parking funds with a loss of Rp. 100 million.

"We suspected that one of our employees who was deemed not to have complied with the management of parking funds," said Hotmarulitua in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Monday, April 14, which was confiscated by Antara.

Hotmarulitua explained that the findings of the Samarinda Regional Inspectorate audit showed indications that Dishub employees were collaborating with a jukir or parking attendant to deviate parking funds, including opening private accounts to accommodate income that should have entered the regional treasury.

The audit period carried out covers the period from January to August 2024.

"For the initials, I can't mention them yet. Let it be the domain of the inspectorate," he said.

Hotmarulitua emphasized that his party gave strict sanctions to people who were found guilty. The sanctions were given based on recommendations from the Inspectorate of Samarinda City, ranging from demotion to dismissal or dismissal.

In addition, individuals involved are also required to return parking funds that should be used as Regional Original Revenue (PAD) for Samarinda City.

"The sanction is a recommendation from the inspectorate, it could be in the form of a demotion, even the hardest one could be dismissal," he said.

He added that the total loss due to the problematic parking management is estimated at hundreds of millions of rupiah. His party ensures that all misappropriated funds are gradually returned to the Samarinda City Government (Pemkot).

"The stages are returned to the city government," he said.

Responding to this problem, the Samarinda Transportation Agency is committed to improving and improving the parking management system so that it becomes more accountable and transparent in the future.

"This is a lesson for us, in the future the Transportation Agency seeks to manage the parking system even better," he said.

Previously, Samarinda Mayor Andi Harun had received an audit report from the Samarinda City Inspectorate about a week before Lebaran in March 2025. The report was a follow-up to a surprise inspection he conducted last January, following an alleged leak of regional revenue from the parking sector.

In the report, the Samarinda Regional Inspectorate found a number of violations, including allegations of abuse of authority by jukir and Dishub employees. In fact, it was found that there were people who opened private accounts to accommodate parking fees.

The Inspectorate also recommended that the Samarinda City Government take firm action against the individuals involved. Several jukir who were proven to have committed fraudulent practices immediately stopped their cooperation.

Mayor Andi Harun emphasized that all decisions related to sanctions were taken objectively based on the evidence collected by the Inspectorate.

"We do not want to impose sanctions just because of assumptions. Every action must be tested based on data and strong evidence that has been collected by the Inspectorate," he said.