SYL Rental Biduan, Jadi Honorer Kementan Terima Salary Bulanan

The defendant in the Ministry of Agriculture Corruption case, Syahrul Yasin Limpo (SYL) is undergoing trial. (Rizky A-VOI)

JAKARTA - The singer, Nayunda Nabila Nizrinah, is said to be an honorary employee at the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan). The singer also received a salary of Rp. 4.3 million per month.

This was revealed based on the testimony of the former Secretary of the Quarantine Agency, Wisnu Haryana, who witnessed the trial of the alleged extortion and acceptance of gratuities with the defendants Syahrul Yasin Limpo or SYL, Kasdi Subagyono, and Muhammad Kasdi.

"The witness knows the name, is there an honorary Ministry of Agriculture employee who is also entrusted by Mr. Yasin Limpo and his family at the Ministry of Agriculture?" asked the prosecutor during a trial at the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Monday, May 20.

"Oh, there is sir," replied Wisnu.

"Who?" said the prosecutor

"If I'm not mistaken, it was Nayunda, at that time," said Wisnu.

Wisnu then conveyed that if there was a directive from the Quarantine Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture would win the Nayunda salary building.

Still in the directive, it was stated that the singer was an honorary officer who served as an assistant to Indra Chunda Thita who was Syahrul Yasin Limpo's son.

"At that time, the direction from Building A was also, Mr. Karo, if I'm not mistaken, that Nayunda would be Thita's assistant, so the honorarium was deposited in quarantine," he said.

"Assistant Mrs. Thita?" asked the prosecutor to confirm which was then agreed by Vishnu.

Then, Wisnu said that his party had stopped paying the honorarium for Nayunda after a year. Because the singer never wrote.

"At the time in the quarantine, we didn't know, sir, only recently did we know that after the end, because at that time Nayunda was in quarantine, only we had only been in quarantine for about a year because we had never been to his office, then a year later we stopped it, sir," said Wisnu.

Hearing this statement, the prosecutor questioned the honorarium received by Nayunda every month. Wisnu also said around Rp. 4.3 million.

"How much if he receives this monthly?" asked the prosecutor.

"The fee per month is IDR 4.300.000 (IDR 4.3 million)," said Wisnu.

Nayunda is a singer who had time to fill entertainment activities at the Ministry of Agriculture. He received a fee of IDR 50 million to IDR 100 million.

This was conveyed by the former Coordinator of Household Substances of the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) Arief Sopian while testifying at the Jakarta Corruption Court during a trial of alleged extortion and acceptance of gratuities with SYL as a defendant. The trial was held on Monday, April 29.

At that time, it was conveyed that there was money from the ministry used to pay for entertainment. One of them was paying for the singer who was invited to the event held by Syahrul Yasin Limpo while serving as Minister of Agriculture.

"Including the... that's why I want to ask because the witness called it several times, yes, around Rp. 50 to Rp. 100 million once transferring it to be entertainment. What does this mean to be entertainment?" asked the prosecutor.

"Sometimes when there is an event, you keep calling the singer, yes, there are singers. So that's what we have to pay, sir," Arief replied.

Then, the prosecutor questioned Arief about the transfer for Nayunda Nabila. "In particular, the one who went to Nayunda. If I checked, it turned out that Nayunda was rising star idol. How many times did you go to Nayunda?"

"Only once," Arief replied in the trial.