Corruption Ministry Of Social Assistance Rice Called KPK Distributed Throughout Indonesia

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) revealed that corruption cases in the procurement of social assistance rice (bansos) for beneficiary families (KPM) in the Family Hope Program (PKH) had a major impact. The reason is that the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) program targets all regions in the country.

"So (allegedly, red) this (related to, red) distribution of social assistance rice throughout Indonesia in 2021," said Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri to reporters, Thursday, March 16.

Ali revealed that this case was uncovered when the development of alleged corruption in the procurement of COVID-19 social assistance that ensnared former Social Minister (Mensos) Juliari Batubara was carried out. At that time, the KPK received a public report.

From there the KPK then conducted an analysis. "It turns out that there are other facts when the distribution of social assistance in the Ministry of Social Affairs is suspected that there was an unlawful act," he said.

As a result of the alleged corruption, Ali said the state had lost hundreds of billions. However, this number can still increase because the calculation has not been completed.

In an effort to investigate this alleged riot, Ali said investigators would explore several things. Starting from SOEs to several private parties who are implementing the distribution of rice social assistance for PKH.

"So later we will continue to explore it," he said.

Previously reported, the KPK is currently investigating allegations of corruption in the distribution of rice social assistance at the Ministry of Social Affairs. This criminal incident allegedly occurred around 2020-2021.

Although it has not been announced who the suspects are, the former Director of PT Transjakarta M. Kuncoro Wibowo is reportedly also entangled. He has been prevented from leaving the country by the Directorate General of Immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights for six months until next August.

Apart from Kuncoro, the anti-corruption commission also asked five other people to be prevented. It is reported that they were also named suspects.

Those prevented were Budi Susanto, April Chuniawan, Ivo Wongkaren, Roni Ramdani, and Richard Cahyanto. Kuncoro, Budi, and April are parties of PT Bhanda Ghara Reksa (BGR) while the rest come from PT Primalayan Teknologi Persada.

Meanwhile, PT BGR is one of the distributors of the social assistance for rice for the Ministry of Social Affairs program. The state-owned company has the task of distributing 222,070,230 kilograms of rice social assistance from the Ministry of Social Affairs to 4,934,894 families of PKH program beneficiaries in the country.