Tom Lembong Will Undergo Today's Verdict Session

Former Minister of Trade (Mendag), Thomas Trikasih Lembong eyebrows Tom Lembong (ANTARW)

JAKARTA - Former Minister of Trade (Mendag), Thomas Trikasih Lembong, Tom Lembong's eyebrows will undergo a trial to read the verdict or verdict for the alleged corruption case of sugar imports, today, Friday, July 18.

The trial will be held at the Corruption Court (Tipikor) at the Central Jakarta District Court.

"Cases Number 34/Pid.Sus-TPK/2025/PN.Jkt.Pst on behalf of the defendant Thomas Trikasih Lembong. The decision agenda," said the spokesman for the Central Jakarta District Court, Friday, July 18.

Apart from Tom Lembong, former Director of Business Development of PT Perusahaan Perdagangan Indonesia (PPI), Charles Sitorus, will also face a verdict hearing.

Lembong was dragged into the defendant in the alleged corruption case of sugar importation at the Ministry of Trade in 2015'2016.

In that case, he was charged with imprisonment for 7 years and a fine of Rp. 750 million, provided that if the fine was not paid, it would be replaced (subsidiary) with imprisonment for 6 months.

Tom Lembong was charged with causing state financial losses of Rp578.1 billion, among others, for issuing an import recognition letter or approval of imports of raw crystal sugar for the 2015'2016 period to 10 companies without being based on inter-ministerial coordination meetings and without any recommendations from the Ministry of Industry.

The letter of import recognition or approval of imports of raw crystal sugar for the 2015'2016 period to the parties is allegedly given to import raw crystal sugar to be processed into white crystal sugar, even though Tom Lembong knows the company has no right to process raw crystal sugar into white crystal sugar because the company is a refined sugar company.

He is also said to have not appointed a state-owned company (BUMN) to control the availability and stabilization of sugar prices, but to appoint the Kartika Cooperative Identification (Inkopkar), the Main Cooperative of the Indonesian National Police (Inkoppol), the Indonesian National Police Cooperative Center (Puskopol), and the TNI/Polri Employee Welfare Cooperative Unit (SKKP).

For his actions, Tom Lembong is threatened with a crime as regulated in Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.