Former DKI Forestry Service Official Suspect Of Land Mafia, This Is Deputy Governor Riza Patria's Response

Ahmad Riza Patria/Photo: Antaranews

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has named the former Head of the Land Unit of the DKI Jakarta Forestry Service (Parking and City Forest Service) with the initials HH as a suspect in the land mafia case in Cipayung, East Jakarta.

Responding to this, the Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, Ahmad Riza Patria, admitted that his party supports the steps of the Jakarta Attorney General's Office to thoroughly investigate the corruption case in land acquisition.

"If it is proven, of course it is the duty and authority of the legal apparatus to impose sanctions. We support the legal apparatus to impose sanctions on anyone in the provincial government who violates the rules and regulations," Riza told reporters, Tuesday, June 21.

Although there were DKI officials who apparently played a role in the land mafia case, Riza claimed that he and the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan had warned his subordinates not to commit acts of corruption or bribery.

"Then, we support the efforts of the legal apparatus, whether it be the police, prosecutors, courts, up to the KPK to help ensure that DKI Jakarta Provincial Government programs run according to plans, existing regulations and there is no abuse of authority, power, budget, and so on. -other," he explained.

As is known, on Friday, June 17, 2022, investigators from the DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor's Office again named a suspect in the Cipayung Land Mafia case, namely HH as the former Head of the Land Unit of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Forestry Service.

While still in office in 2018, HH carried out land acquisition in Setu Village, Cipayung District, East Jakarta, without any land acquisition planning documents, city plan information maps from the City Planning Service, requests for asset information, and without the approval of the Governor of DKI Jakarta Province Anies Baswedan .

In launching his corruption action, HH provided a resume of property assessments of 9 plots of land to the suspect LD as a notary. The document is used by LD to regulate the price of the land.

As a result, land owners only received compensation for land acquisition of Rp. 1.6 million per meter, while the price paid by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Forestry Service was Rp. 2.7 million per meter.

The total amount paid by the DKI Provincial Forestry Service was Rp. 46.4 billion. Meanwhile, the money received by the land owner was only IDR 28.7 billion. The state loss in the form of the remaining Rp17.7 billion was enjoyed by LD and a number of parties.

This case is alleged to have violated the provisions of Article 45 and Article 55 of the Governor's Regulation Number 82 of 2017 concerning Guidelines for Land Procurement for Development in the Public Interest related to the procurement plan.

The articles that are suspected for the suspect HH are Article 2 paragraph (1), Article 3, Article 11, Article 12 letter b Jo. Article 18 paragraph (1) letter b of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes Jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.

Previously, the DKI Attorney General's Office had named two suspects in the Cipayung land mafia case, namely LD as a notary and MTT as a land acquisition mafia.