Regarding The Report On The Alleged Provision Of Private Aircraft Facilities To Kaesang, KPK: Wait For The Team To Work

KPK spokesman Tessa Mahardika (Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - Regarding The Report On The Allegation Of Providing Personal Aircraft Facilities To Kaesang, KPK: Wait For The Team To Work

"We hope that our friends can be patient to wait for colleagues from the public complaint department (dumas) and the gratification department to work," said KPK spokesman Tessa Mahardika to reporters quoted on Thursday, August 29.

"So we will work with the prudent, with the principle of prudence with the existing legal framework so that no parties will feel disadvantaged later," he continued.

Even so, Tessa said that Kaesang was actually not obliged to report gratuities like existing regulations. This is because the Chairman of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) is not a civil servant or state administrator.

"If the person concerned feels, 'oh, I got this, there is a conflict of interest', he can report it, but if the person concerned believes there is no connection then there is no need to report it,' explained the spokesman with the investigator's background.

"And the time span to report is 30 days after the person on the move accepts it," said Tessa.

As previously reported, the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) suspects that President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) son, Kaesang Pangarep, traveled to the United States using a private jet facilitated by PT Shopee International Indonesia. The KPK was asked to investigate because they had submitted a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) document in collaboration between the company and the Solo City Government.

MAKI Coordinator Boyamin Saiman said that this file is expected to be an entry point to investigate whether or not there is receiving gratuities by the General Chairperson of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI). According to him, Kaesang still has a family relationship with Gibran.

"In the technical instructions of the Ministry of Religion, it also involves children and wives and it means that the brother who gets the flight ticket facility can also be categorized as alleged gratification," Boyamin explained in his statement to reporters, Wednesday, August 28.

"Well, why is Kaesang associated with Gibran? Yes, because the slice is there. Whatever Kaesang is, Gibran's sister. And it is suspected that the plane is also related to PT Shopee," he continued.