BUMN Ministry Appoints Bukit Asam To Manage Coal Mine Owned By Jiwasraya Suspect

Bukit Asam coal mine. (Photo: Bukit Asam)

JAKARTA - The BUMN Ministry has received confiscated assets from the Attorney General's Office in the form of a coal mine belonging to the suspect in the Jiwasraya default case. The asset belonging to the suspect Heru Hidayat is named PT Gunung Bara Utama which is located in Kutai, East Kalimantan.

This was disclosed by the Special Staff of the Ministry of BUMN, Arya Sinulingga, in Jakarta on February 28. "This (coal mine), has been entrusted to the Ministry of BUMN, to us, to be managed," said Arya.

Arya said that this confiscation was a quick work carried out by the Attorney General's Office. This is one of the assets that the AGO said was the result of the investigation into the Jiwasraya default case.

"So we started to enter this mining company and we have started to appoint PT Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk to manage it. So this is real work that we work fast, both the AGO and BUMN do not want to take long, even if it is proven as soon as possible we take over. the asset.

Heru Hidayat is one of the suspects in the corruption and collusion case of investment management in Jiwasraya. The confiscation of these assets also answered the wishes of the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) to urge the AGO investigative team to search and confiscate assets belonging to the suspect, President Commissioner of PT Trada Alam Minera Heru Hidayat.

MAKI coordinator Boyamin Saiman said that the search and confiscation of assets carried out by the investigating team recently focused only on suspects Benny Tjokrosaputro and Hendrisman Rahim, while other suspects such as Heru Hidayat were not pursued and confiscated.

In fact, Boyamin believes that the suspect Heru Hidayat received a large amount of funds from the proceeds of corruption from PT Asuransi Jiwasraya compared to the other four suspects.

Apart from Heru, Benny Tjokrosaputro, the commissioner of PT Hanson Internasional Tbk was also named a suspect.

The state-owned insurance company is known to have placed many investment funds with a high risk profile. Among them, shares amounted to 22.4 percent or IDR 5.7 trillion of their financial assets.

As a result, Jiwasraya suffered an equity deficit of IDR 29 trillion due to the company's high liabilities, which amounted to IDR 51 trillion. In fact, the company's assets as of 2019 (unaudited) were only IDR 22 trillion.