MATARAM - The Mataram District Attorney's Office, West Nusa Tenggara, has applied the criminal provisions contained in the new Criminal Code (KUHP) to four suspects in the 2024 mukena and sarung procurement corruption case in West Lombok Regency.
Head of the Mataram District Attorney's Intelligence Section, Harun Al Rasyid, said the implementation of the criminal provisions in the new Criminal Code was realized at the momentum of the implementation of the second phase or the transfer of suspects and evidence from investigators to prosecutors to public prosecutors which took place today.
"Yes, so at this stage of the second phase, we are also changing the criminal provisions from those previously regulated in the Tipikor Law (Corruption Crime) to the new Criminal Code," he said as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 6.
In the determination of the four suspects, previously the investigators applied Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the amendment of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.
Now, with the implementation of the new Criminal Code which will take effect on January 2, 2026, the application of the criminal article is replaced by Article 603 and/or Article 604 in conjunction with Article 20 letter C of the Criminal Code Number 1 of 2023.
Edy Rahman as a lawyer for one of the suspects with the initials AZ who is a member of the West Lombok DPRD confirmed that there was a replacement of the criminal article which refers to the new Criminal Code.
"Yes, Article 2 paragraph (1) of the Corruption Tipikor Law has become Article 603 of the New Criminal Code, Article 3 has become Article 604 of the Criminal Code, and for Article 55 it is Article 20 letter C," said Edy Rahman.
Although there is a change in the criminal article, he sees no change in the criminal element. Instead, the difference is only in the threat of a fine.
"If the one in Article 2 paragraph (1) is 'the minimum fine value is Rp. 200 million, if the one in Article 603 of the Criminal Code is only a minimum of Rp. 10 million. So, later which one will be used which is beneficial to the defendant," he said.
The four suspects in this case come from the ranks of officials from the West Lombok Social Service as the distributor of goods with the initials DD and MZ, AZ who is a member of the West Lombok DPRD as the source of funds, and the provider of goods from the private sector with the initials R.
In this case, the prosecutor's office has collected the results of the audit of the calculation of state financial losses (PKKN) from the West Lombok Inspectorate with a value of Rp. 1.7 billion.
Losses occurred in the process of distributing 10 procurement packages with a value of Rp. 200 million each. The distribution was carried out through the Social Empowerment Division of the West Lombok Social Affairs as many as eight packages and the rest through the social rehabilitation division.
The issue of corruption allegedly emerged from a survey of commodity prices and the preparation of own estimated prices (HPS). The suspicion is related to the inflation of commodity prices by referring to the West Lombok price unit standard (SSH) in 2023.
The budget for the 10 problematic procurement packages at the West Lombok Dinsos was revealed to have come from the West Lombok DPRD's main thoughts (pokir).
The follow-up to the second phase, the public prosecutor continued the detention of the three suspects, namely MZ, AZ, and R at the West Lombok Class II A Prison. For the suspect DD with a female identity, he was set in the city detention status.
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