Secretary General Of The Ministry Of Transportation Received A Warning From The KPK Because It Was Not Cooperative

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) reminded the Secretary General of the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) Novie Riyanto to cooperate in fulfilling the summons in the bribery case of a rail project. This warning was conveyed because he was absent from the investigator's summons on Thursday, July 20. Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri said Novie and another witness, Billy Haryanto alias Billy Beras, who is a private party, was not present without information. In fact, investigators need information from them to investigate the alleged bribery that occurred. "As we received the information, the two witnesses were not present and without confirmation regarding the reasons for his absence," Ali said in a written statement, Friday, July 21. Ali said investigators would immediately summon the two. They were asked to attend the KPK's Red and White Building because the information was needed. "KPK reminds and expects the cooperative attitude of the two witnesses to attend the next summons," he said. In this case, the KPK has named 10 suspects for alleged bribery related to the construction and maintenance of railway lines within the Directorate General of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation for Fiscal Year 2018-2022. Six recipients are the Director of Railway Infrastructure Harno Trimadi; Commitment Making Officer (PPK) of the Central Java Railway Engineering Center (BTP) Bernard Hasibuan; and Head of Central Java BTP Putu Sumarjaya. Then there is also the PPK of the South Sulawesi Railway Management Center (BPKA) Achmad Affandi; PPK for Rail Infrastructure, Fadliansyah; and the West Java BTP (Jabagbar) PPK Syntheto Pirjani Hutabarat. While the rest were bribe givers, namely the Director of PT Istana Putra Agung, Dion Renato Sugiarto; Director of PT Dwifarita Fajarkharisma, Muchamad Hikmat; Vice President of PT KA Management Properti, Parjono; and former Director of PT KA Management Properti, Yoseph Ibrahim. The anti-corruption commission suspects that six officials from the Ministry of Transportation's DJKA received bribes worth Rp. 14.5 billion related to four railway projects in Indonesia.

The four projects suspected of being the bancakan are the Solo Balapan-Kadipiro-Kalioso Double railway line construction project; a railway line construction project in Makassar, South Sulawesi; four railway construction projects and two supervision projects in Lampegan Cianjur, West Java; and a project to repair the Java-Sumatra Crossing.