The Head Of The Parks Agency Examined By The Prosecutor's Office Regarding Land Mafia, Deputy Governor Of DKI: I Just Heard

Ahmad Riza Patria/Photo: Antaranews

JAKARTA - Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza admitted that he had only just learned that his subordinates, namely the Head of the DKI Jakarta City Parks and Forest Service, Suzi Marsitawati, were examined by the DKI High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati).

Suzi is being questioned as a witness related to cases of alleged land mafia or land acquisition corruption in Cipayung, East Jakarta.

"I didn't know anything at all and just heard from media friends," said Riza at DKI City Hall, Central Jakarta, Wednesday, March 16.

Riza said that his party would conduct an internal investigation regarding the process of purchasing land from the City Parks and Forests Service in Cipayung, which has an expensive price.

However, in principle, Riza claims that the ranks of the DKI Provincial Government are working to procure land for government programs in accordance with applicable regulations.

"As far as I know the ranks of the service, especially the leadership, must know the SOP, stages, rules, and so on, must comply with the provisions of the rules and regulations," said Riza.

"We are optimistic that our staff not only knows, understands and implements it, but is very thorough in the buying process," he continued.

It is known that Suzi was questioned by the DKI Attorney General's Office on Monday, March 14. Apart from Suzi, the Jakarta Attorney General's Office also questioned the former Head of the DKI Jakarta City Parks and Forest Service, Djafar Muchlisin, and several others. Both of them have the status as witnesses to alleged corruption with the mark-up mode.

Currently, the Jakarta Attorney General's Office investigation team and PPATK are still investigating whether or not there is a flow of money received by the DKI City Parks and Forests Service, which causes state losses.

In this case, in 2018 the Parks and City Forest Service of DKI Province spent Rp. 326,972,478,000 or Rp. 326 billion more for land acquisition in Cipayung District.

The budget of hundreds of billions of rupiah is for land acquisition activities for forest parks, tombs, and RPTRA in the East Jakarta Administrative City area.

In its implementation, it is suspected that the price paid was too high, causing a loss to the state in this case the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government of approximately Rp. 26,719,343,153 or more than Rp. 26 billion.

The high price is due to the fact that budgeting in determining the market price is not based on the price of identical or similar assets offered for sale, as stipulated in the Market Data comparison method based on the Indonesian Appraisal Standard 106 (SPI 106).