Luhut Not Worried About Reporting To KPK About Alleged PCR Business, Spokesperson: Everything He Did Was Service For The State

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Photo: Doc. Kemenko Marves)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan is currently being rumored to be involved in the PCR business. Therefore, Luhut was reported to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Spokesman for the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Jodi Mahardi, said Luhut said he was not worried about the report.

"So Pak Luhut himself is not worried about the report, because nothing is covered up, especially for personal business purposes. There has never been any personal gain in any form that Pak Luhut has received from the assistance that has been given so far," he told reporters, Friday, November 5th.

Even so, said Jodi, his party appreciates the report. According to him, as a democracy, all are equal before the law, and anyone has the right to make such a report.

"As long as it meets the requirements and quality of the complaint according to the legal mechanism at the KPK. We respect the process," he said.

Jodi said everything Luhut had done so far was a form of his contribution and dedication to the country. According to Jodi, all policy decisions regarding the implementation of community activity restrictions (PPKM) are also carried out transparently

"All policy-making related to PPKM is also carried out transparently for the benefit of the community. The PPKM policy has proven successful in reducing COVID cases in Indonesia," he said.

Therefore, Jodi also emphasized that Luhut did not take advantage of PT GSI at all. According to him, what PT GSI obtained will benefit the community and at the same time help the Ministry of Health.

"The profits obtained by GSI are also reused to benefit the community, such as to provide free swab tests and also free genome sequencing to help the Ministry of Health, not to be distributed in the form of dividends to shareholders or in other forms," he said.

Previously, two ministers in the government of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) were reported to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). This report was made because they are suspected of being behind the business of procuring PCR equipment which is a test kit to detect COVID-19.

The People's Party Adil Makmur (PRIMA) reported the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and SOE Minister Erick Thohir to the KPK. This report emerged because of rumors that the two ministers in the Advanced Indonesia Cabinet were playing behind the PCR business.

"We want to report outside rumors that there are suspicions that several ministers are related to the PCR business, especially if the ones that have been mentioned by many media are the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and Erick Thohir," said Deputy Chairperson of PRIMA Alif Kamal. after submitting the report at the KPK's Red and White Building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Thursday, November 4.

As for the basis for this report, said Alif, because this alleged business has made it difficult for the community in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this report was made because the price of PCR tests often changes and the basic price is not clear.