JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) encourages improvements in the governance of the import sector and national customs services after conducting a hand-in-hand operation (OTT) related to import bribes at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.
KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo said that strengthening and improvement needed to be carried out because the silent operation showed that there were corruption gaps that had a direct impact on state revenues and the stability of national trade.
"This matter reveals that the border area or post-border still has corruption gaps," Budi told reporters, quoted by Wednesday, February 18.
Budi said that the case of bribery in import taxes, which is currently being handled, was actually not a new item. The modus operandi of engineering the import route through manipulation of the red line and green line parameters, including the arrangement of the rule set before being entered into the scanner machine, had actually been mapped by the KPK through a study 'Potential Corruption in the Import Transaction of Horticultural Products 2016-2020'.
Likewise, the modus operandi of making regular deposits to maintain the arrangement of import routes. "Based on this finding, without a strong and integrated digital surveillance system, the technical discretion of the apparatus can become a vulnerable point of deviation. So individual integrity must be strengthened by a system that is capable of closing transactional spaces," he said.
Furthermore, through the National Strategy for Corruption Prevention (Stranas PK), the KPK also found potential irregularities in the implementation of the Indonesian Single Risk Management (ISRM) system. Mainly in the practice of risk profiling exporters and importers that can be manipulated to enter the low risk category.
"This condition becomes an administrative negotiation room by certain officials in the risk profiling process, which triggers rent-seeking practices in the issuance of permits and clearance processes," said Budi.
Budi continued that the KPK through Stranas PK actually encouraged a number of improvement steps. Among them are the strengthening of digitization and the integration of import supervision systems, the implementation of objective risk profiles, the integration of licensing and beneficial ownership data, the simplification of cross-agency business processes, and the digitization of services to minimize direct interaction.
The KPK emphasized that the improvement of the import sector and customs services not only concerns administrative aspects, but also relates to the protection of state revenues and the stability of the national economy.
"Improving the import sector and customs services is not merely an administrative issue, but an important part of maintaining economic sovereignty, protecting compliant business actors, and ensuring that every flow of goods across the country takes place in a transparent manner," he said.
"KPK will continue to monitor the implementation of this governance strengthening considering the pattern of corruption in the customs sector is often repeated by taking advantage of system gaps and technical discretion."
As previously reported, the KPK announced six suspects related to alleged bribes and gratuities related to the import of goods at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise after conducting a hand-in-hand operation (OTT) some time ago. One of them is the Director of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (P2 DJBC) for the period 2024-2026, Rizal.
In addition to Rizal, the KPK also named five other suspects. They are Sisprian Subiaksono (SIS) as Head of the Subdirectorate of Intelligence, Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Kasubdit Intel P2 DJBC); Orlando Hamonangan (ORL) as Head of the Intelligence Section of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (Kasi Intel DJBC); John Field (JF) as owner of PT Blueray (BR); Andri as Head of the Import Documents Team of PT BR; and Dedy Kurniawan as Operational Manager of PT BR.
The KPK suspects that this case began in October 2025 when Orlando Hamonangan and Sisprian Subiaksono together with John Field, Andri, and Dedy Kurniawan committed a conspiracy. They arranged the planning of the import route of goods that would enter Indonesia.
This evil agreement is based on the Minister of Finance Regulation. In this policy there are two categories of lanes in the service and supervision of imported goods to determine the level of inspection before being issued from the customs area, namely the green lane which is the lane for the issuance of imported goods without inspection and the red lane with physical inspection of goods.
From this evil agreement, Orlando then ordered his men to adjust the parameters of the red line and follow it up by drafting a rule set at 70 percent.
This rule set was then sent by the Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation to the Directorate of Customs and Excise Information (IKC) to be included in the parameters of the goods inspection machine.
As a result of the conditioning, the goods carried by PT BR were allegedly not through a physical examination so that the goods suspected of being counterfeit, KW, and illegal could enter Indonesia without being checked by Customs officers.
After the conditioning was completed, there was a transfer of money from PT BR to the parties in DJBC in the period December 2025 to February 2026 in a number of locations. The receipt is carried out regularly every month as a quota for the individuals in DJBC.
Meanwhile, in the silent operation, the KPK secured evidence worth Rp40.5 billion in detail:
1. Cash in the form of Rupiah amounting to IDR 1.89 billion; 2. Cash in the form of US Dollars amounting to USD 182,900; 3. Cash in the form of Singapore Dollars amounting to SGD 1.48 million; 4. Cash in the form of Japanese Yen amounting to JPY 550,000; 5. Precious metals weighing 2.5 Kg or equivalent to IDR 7.4 billion; 6. Precious metals weighing 2.8 Kg or equivalent to IDR 8.3 billion; 7. 1 luxury watch worth IDR 138 million.
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