There Is A State-Owned Enterprise Suspected Of Being Entangled In A Bribery Case, Special Staff Erick Thohir: We Support The BUMN Cleaning Section

Special Staff to the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Arya Sinulingga. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Special Staff (Stafsus) of the Minister of SOEs Arya Sinulingga opened his voice regarding SOEs suspected of being involved in bribery cases with a software company from the European Union based in Germany, SAP SE.

Arya said that after reading the available information, it was stated that the alleged bribery occurred at Pertamina in 2017, Angkasa Pura I 2012, and Angkasa Pura II 2015.

"But we haven't got the details yet. Hopefully later with the detailed data, our BUMN friends believe we can work with anyone for this," Arya told reporters in Jakarta, Thursday, January 18.

Even so, Arya said that in principle the Ministry of SOEs supports matters related to cleaning up SOEs. This is also in accordance with the program run by SOE Minister Erick Thohir.

"So we support things that are part of cleaning up SOEs as well. That's the program, Mr. Erick always goes that way," he said.

For your information, SAP is a European Union software company based in Germany. This company markets its software around the world, including Indonesia through Indonesian SAP.

In his case, the United States Department of Justice released a US SEC report on the practice of bribery of SAP in South Africa and Indonesia. Where in the report it was stated that there were two bribes, namely the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), as well as the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) through BP3TI which is now called BAKTI.

US SEC documents form the basis of the United States Department of Justice to mention the broader practice of Indonesian SAP bribery. Where it is stated that the representative of this German company bribed the Ministry of Social Affairs, DKI Provincial Government, AP I and AP II, Pertamina to MRT Jakarta.

SAP Indonesia itself was recorded to have received a project of 174,908 US dollars on March 22, 2018. However, the SEC did not mention the names of officials who received bribes and the amount of money given.