NTB Prosecutor's Office Stop Handling Honor Staff Corruption Cases Governor

Aspidsus Kejati NTB Elly Rahmawati. (ANTARA/Dhimas B.P.)

The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has stopped handling cases of alleged corruption in the payment of special staff honorariums (Staffsus) for the Governor and Deputy Governor of NTB for the period 2018 to 2023. "So, we stopped the handling of this case because there were no indications of criminal and state losses found," said Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the NTB Attorney General's Office, Elly Rahmawati, at a press conference in Mataram, Antara, Tuesday, May 28. In stopping the handling of the case at the investigation stage, he ensured that his party had clarified to all relevant parties. Assistant for Intelligence at the NTB Prosecutor's Office, I Wayan Riana, also added that the prosecutor's strong consideration was to stop handling the case seeing the opinion of experts from the Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri). The expert's request for opinion is to see the regulations for the formation of special staff made by Dr. Zulkieflimansyah and Sitti Rohmi Djalillah, such as the determination of the amount of honorarium and source of funds. "From experts (Kemendagri) revealed that there is no crime, all processes run according to the rules," he said. Likewise, with the results of the clarification of the staff who received honorariums from the regional budget, Riana ensured that all staff members carried out their duties according to the rules. "All of our staff have clarified everything. Everything has work output," said Riana.

The payment of honorariums for 50 staff members of the Governor and Deputy Governor of NTB previously received attention from the NTB Representative Audit Agency (BPK). Although it is not included in the examination report (LHP), BPK questioned the contribution of the presence of at least 50 governor staff with an income per person of at least Rp. 4 million per month. This figure is allocated from the APBD.