Corruption Judge Calls Project Auction BTS 4G Arisan, Satan's Circle

The trial is at the Corruption Court (Photo: DOK VOI/Rizky AP)

JAKARTA - The panel of judges at the Corruption Court (Tipikor) considers the auction of the 4G Base Transceiver Station (BTS) procurement project to be like a vicious circle or vicious circle. Because, there is no significant difference or competition between companies in the auction of each package. This assumption began when Chief Justice Fahzal Henri questioned witness Gumala Warman as Head of the Procurement and Information System Division of the Directorate of Administrative Resources BAKTI and Chairman of the Working Group for Procurement of Providers regarding the auction mechanism for the 4G BTS project. "The ones who took part in the tender, the auction were 3 consortiums?" asked judge Fahzal during a trial at the Central Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday, August 3. "That's right Yang started, for 3 packages," replied Gumala. Then, Gumala said that the FiberHome, PT Telkominfra, and PT Multi Trans Data (PT MTD) consortiums won for package 1 and 2 packages. It was later discovered that Telkom Infra is a subsidiary owned by PT Telkom Indonesia (Telkom Group) which is engaged specifically in infrastructure services. "No rivals, sir? No other competition?" asked the judge. "There are packages 1 and 2, Your Majesty," said Gumala. "Who is the competitor?" said the judge. "Talikarta, Huawei, ZTE partnerships," said Gumala. When he heard that statement, Judge Fahzal said that the auction process was like a vicious circle. "Yes, that's it too, right! Just turn around there, vicious circle, vicious circle! That too, later in the end, the tender brother will also be the winner. Is that right? Did someone not pass the three consortiums were tenders even though they were different packages?" asked the judge. "There was in each package, Your Majesty, meaning package 1," replied Gumala. "Yes, meaning package 1, 2, 3, 4, package 5, huh?" asked the judge emphasizing. "Yes," said Gumla. Then, Judge Fahzal again questioned the absence of competition to get projects in the auction process. Gumala immediately agreed. "What I asked was that it was easy, simple, there was no competition, really, sir. In the end they also won! Right?" asked the judge. "That's right, Your Honor, because only the three consortiums passed the pre-qualification," said Gumala. Hearing this statement, Chief Judge Fahzal then asked the auction process to be like an arisan. This is because each company is just waiting for the winner to get the project. "What do you want to tender if that's the case? It's enough to distribute rations, you're this package, you're that package, you're that package, right, sir. There's no rival. If the tender has to be a competitor, someone loses the tender, someone loses the tender here?" asked the judge. "Earlier, Your Majesty, Huawei's partnership lost the tender in packages 1 and 2," said Gumala. "In another package did he get it?" said the judge. "In package 3 he wins," replied Gumala.

"Heee! That's a joke, that's a joke, it's not a tender like that, sir. Tender must have a rival, someone loses, there are winners even though this is divided into a number of packages. But after the tender, it's the same as the distribution of rations, the arisan. You package 1, package 2, yes, this is package 3, package 4, sir. So what you passed, the three consortiums, he carried out the packages, different packages, up to package 5. Is that right?" asked the judge who was immediately agreed by Gumala.