Responding To Bribe Returns Makes Defendant 4G Sentenced To Light, Vice President: Must Be Accountable

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin after reviewing the B3 waste treatment plant in Pasuruan Regency, East Java, Thursday (27/6/2024). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin conveyed the need for independence of law enforcers when carrying out their duties so that the legal process runs transparently and can be accounted to to the public.

The vice president said legal matters are the full authority of law enforcement officials. However, he did not want to give an assessment of the material of the case being handled.

"Yes, I think it is the authority of law enforcement, so I am not good if I give an assessment of what it is like," said the Vice President after reviewing the B3 waste treatment plant in Pasuruan Regency, East Java (East Java), Thursday, June 27, quoted from a statement from the Press Bureau of the Vice Presidential Secretariat via Antara.

This was conveyed by the Vice President in response to the decision of the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor) against a member of III of the Inactive Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) Achsanul Qosasi who was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison and a fine of Rp250 million after being proven to have accepted bribes in the case of the BTS 4G BAKTI Kominfo project in 2021.

In that case, the defendant Achsanul was found guilty of being proven guilty of accepting bribes amounting to US$2.6 million or equivalent to Rp40 billion.

However, the verdict is now a public discussion. The reason is, Achsanul received a lighter sentence than the demands of the public prosecutor (JPU), which is 5 years in prison.

One of the considerations for Achsanul's light sentence was because the person concerned had returned the bribe of Rp40 billion in the investigation stage.

For this reason, the Vice President emphasized that the decision of law enforcement must be based on strong and accountable principles. He hopes that the decisions taken will not cause problems in the future.

"So, we hope that there are indeed grounds that can be accounted for when law enforcement decides that, we hope so, it will not cause problems," said the Vice President.

Once again, the Vice President also said that he did not want to be involved in the judicial assessment of cases being processed by law enforcement.

"That's all, so I don't want the material," said the vice president.