Already A BSI KUR Corruption Suspect, This Person Is Still Inaugurated As A Member Of The Central Lombok DPRD

Chairman of the PKS Faction of the Central Lombok DPRD, NTB Province Ahmad Supli (ANTARA/Akhyar Rosidi)

CENTRAL LOMBOK - An individual member of the Central Lombok DPRD elected with the initials M who has been named a suspect by the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) is still being inaugurated. M was involved in the alleged corruption case in the distribution of people's business credit funds (KUR) at Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI) 2021-2022. "This has just been named a suspect, there has been no legal court decision yet," said Chairman of the PKS faction of the Central Lombok DPRD H Ahmad Supli in Central Lombok, Antara, Thursday, August 15. The NTB High Prosecutor's Office revealed the determination of four additional suspects. Two of them are members of the Central Lombok DPRD with the initials MS and M in the development of handling cases of alleged corruption in the distribution of people's business credit funds (KUR). Of the two members of the Central Lombok DPRD, one suspect with the initials M was re-elected and the initials MS failed to sit back as a member of the DPRD for the period 2024-2029. "They have prepared their own lawyers. For the inauguration, the KPU proposed according to the results of the 2024 General Election," he said. He said what the members were doing was to help the community, to have livestock from the program, because they only facilitated it. "They help the community, we remain well-conjected," he said. He said that in the early stages of the program there were no problems, but because there was an outbreak of mouth and nail disease (PMK), some of the livestock raised by the farmers were sick and died. In addition, Central Lombok district through a decree from the Ministry of Agriculture has determined the PMK outbreak area. "They provide assistance to the community," he said. Meanwhile, a member of the Central Lombok DPRD with the initials M who was named a suspect said that he was ready to follow the legal process that had been determined. "We are ready to follow the legal process," he said. In this case, it was not only him who was named a suspect, but also the suspect with the initials MS and two other suspects, because there were many problems with porang and livestock. "I'm the livestock one, this is just the suspect and we will take legal action," he said. " “ Benar was named a suspect, later you can contact my lawyer,” said the suspect's initials MS. Spokesperson for the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Efrien Saputera, said that the four suspects from the offtaker in the case had the initials M, MS, MSZ, and DR. For the time being, investigators have not detained them. "Including the two suspects who have previously been named," he said. Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Elly Rahmawati, revealed that the first two suspects were the main officials in two branches of work at the NTB BSI area. Both have the initials SE and WKI. "So, from the two investigations we carried out, the role of SE was the main official in one branch, and this WKI was from another branch. They are suspected of abusing their authority in the distribution of KUR funds," said Elly. Although he was reluctant to convey in full the two branches of BSI's work that were included in the prosecutor's investigation, Elly ensured that the alleged corruption was related to the distribution of KUR funds to farmer groups that produce porang and cattle in the NTB area. "Anyway, there are irregularities, some are fictitious, some are not, they are related (KUR funds) to cows and porang," he said.

Elly said that in determining the suspect, investigators had found indications of unlawful acts and potential state financial losses. "For distribution in Mataram, there is a loss of Rp. 8.3 billion. The other branch, an indication of a loss of Rp. 13 billion. Just to be sure, wait for the results of the BPKP," he said.