PT AMG Mining Corruption Trial, Auditor Witness Claims To Leave Royalty To The NTB ESDM Service Not Entering The Audit

Auditor from BPKP NTB Dicky Prasetyo Adi was presented as a witness at the trial of the alleged corruption of the East Lombok PT AMG iron sand mine at the Mataram District Court, Monday, December 4. (ANTARA/Dhimas BP)

The follow-up trial of the alleged corruption of the iron sand mine PT Anugrah Mitra Graha (AMG) in the Dedalpak Block, East Lombok with the defendants Po Suwandi and Rinus Adam Wakum was again held at the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court (PN), Monday, December 4.

In the trial, an auditor from the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) representative of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Dicky Prasetyo Adi who was presented as a witness claimed that PT AMG's royalties entrusted to the NTB Energy and Mineral Resources Service (ESDM) were not included in the audit of calculating state financial losses (PKKN).

"We did not calculate the royalty deposit, because we saw the conditions in the form of a RKAB approval letter from the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources that had not been fulfilled," said Dicky at the trial, Monday, December 4, which was confiscated by Antara.

He again claimed, if the royalty deposit is included in the calculation, the auditor admitted that PT AMG had met these requirements.

"If it is calculated, it means that there are no violations in this mining activity, because this is a licensing requirement that is not fulfilled," he said.

According to Dicky, this refers to Article 66 letter i of the Regulation of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia Number 7 of 2020 concerning Procedures for Providing Regions, Licensing, and Reporting on Mineral and Coal Mining Business Activities.

Article 66 letter i of the Indonesian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Number 7 of 2020 states that mining business license holders (IUP) or special mining business permits (IUPK) are prohibited from carrying out construction, mining, processing and/or refining activities, as well as transportation and sales, including continued exploration activities before the annual RKAB IUP production operations are approved by the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

In the audit report, Dicky also said that his party had received clarification regarding the collection of royalty deposits from PT AMG.

Erfandy took the Rp696 million deposit with a power of attorney from the Director of PT AMG Po Suwandi.

Therefore, the PKKN value of the PT AMG mining corruption case for the period 2021 and 2022 was obtained from the sale value of mining materials minus the cost of transportation from the mine site to the port and loading and unloading costs at the port. The value of the losses that emerged was Rp36.4 billion.

In this trial, the defendant Po Suwandi acted as Director of PT AMG based in North Jakarta, and the defendant Rinus Adam Wakum as Branch Head of PT AMG.