Witness Reveals Link To Increased Tin Production In People's Mining At Harvey Moeis Session

Harvey Moeis At The Corruption Court/DOK PHOTO: Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - One of the witnesses to the corruption trial of tin commodity trading in the PT Timah mining business permit (IUP) area with the defendant Harvey Moeis revealed an increase in tin production in people's mining.

"That's right. It's going up significantly," said former Head of UPDB Supervision, Bangka Induk Musda Ansori, quoted Wednesday, September 4.

Musda Ansori said that people who carried out previous mining activities could indeed be said to be active illegally.

However, PT Timah is said to have tried to save lead from the mining by buying it from community miners.

"There is a traditional addition, some are semimodern using tools," said Musda.

Meanwhile, in the trial which was held on Monday, September 2, the evaluator of PT Timah, Apit Rinaldi, testified that the people's miners did carry out activities with a partnership pattern with PT Timah.

"People who have land rights at the PTT IUP (mining business license) have the right to cooperate with PTT, which can vary in shape," he explained.

The partnership with the people's miners was outlined or legalized through Instruction 030 of 2008 from the directors of PT Timah concerning Asset Security of PT Timah.

This is done so that tin from people's mining is not even exported illegally or sold to competitors or unauthorized parties, even though the land where mining activities are carried into the IUP (mining business permit) area belonging to PT Timah.

"There is an accumulation between PT Timah's obligations to complete land rights by providing mining cooperation to land owners (partnerships) with a payment method per ton of rupiah and the price has been determined by PT Timah," continued Apit.

Apit explained, although it is active above the PT Timah IUP area, people's miners are not required to reclamation.

The obligation to carry out reclamation remains the obligation of PT Timah which is realized by paying the Environmental Recovery Guarantee Fund that has been paid by the company when applying for a mining area IUP such as the mandate of Article 43 Paragraph (2) point (a) UPPLH.

"Mitra IUJP, there is no reclamation obligation, reclamation obligations remain at the PTT, mitigation by PTT is regional planning that will be arranged as an effort to reclamation or environmental improvement," said Apit.

Another witness presented was Doni with the sense of being an UPT Land Mining Partner. During the trial, he testified to the initial rights of his cooperation with PT Timah. He explained that his party was one of the land owners in the area even though there was an IUP on behalf of PT Timah on it.

Doni explained that initially he had 10 hectares of land and proposed cooperation to PT Timah. When checking, it is known that the land is included in PT Timah's IUP and can then partner with PT Timah.

With a partnership pattern with land owners such as Doni, PT Timah can still obtain lead in its IUP area, while the land owner also gets economic rights on its land.

"In the event that the witness' mining area land has been mined, the land will still be witness ownership, and so will it apply to every mining partner in collaboration with PT Timah to use their mining area land," added Doni.