7 Defendants Of The West Sumatra Disdik Procurement Corruption Case Charged With State Loss Of IDR 5.2 Billion

The Corruption Court at the Padang District Court held its first trial in the alleged corruption case at the West Sumatra Education Office, in Padang, Thursday (3/10/2024). ANTARA/FathulAbdi

The inaugural trial of alleged corruption in the procurement project at the West Sumatra Education Office (Disdik) was held today, Thursday, October 3.

The Public Prosecutor (JPU) Pitria Erwina Cs charged seven defendants in this case to be guilty of harming the state for the riots committed.

"The actions of the defendants together have harmed the state or state economic losses amounting to Rp5,522,079,927," said Public Prosecutor Pitria in an indictment read out at the Corruption Court at the Padang District Court (PN), Thursday, October 3, which was confiscated by Antara.

The defendants consisting of seven people came from the West Sumatra Education Office, the West Sumatra Provincial Government (Pemprov), and partners.

The defendant from the West Sumatra Education Office is the Head of the Vocational School Development Division as well as the Budget User Authority (KPA), Raymon; Rusli Ardion Activity Technical Implementation Officer (PPTK), and SMK teacher; Syaiful Abrar.

Furthermore, from the West Sumatra Provincial Government, the former Head of the West Sumatra Provincial Government's Goods and Services Procurement Work Unit (UKPBJ), Doni Rahmat Samulo.

Then from the partner, namely the Director of CV Global Innovation, Syarifudin; Director of CV Bunga Tridara, Erika; Deputy Director of CV Bunga Tridara; Suherwin.

They underwent a trial accompanied by their respective legal advisers, except for the defendant Syafrudin who was not accompanied by a lawyer.

The prosecutor charged the seven defendants with primary charges of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption. Then the subsidiary charges violated Article 3 of Law 31 of 1999, Juncto (Jo) Article 18, Jo Article 55 paragraph 1 1 of the Criminal Code.

In his indictment, the Public Prosecutor explained that the case began when the West Sumatra Education Office carried out the procurement of main practice equipment for vocational students at the West Sumatra Prmprov in 2021, which was sourced from the Special Allocation Fund (DAK) of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture with a budget ceiling of Rp. 18,072 billion.

Procurement is divided into four procurement packages, namely procurement for the industrial sector, both food security sectors, the third maritime affairs, and finally for the tourism sector. However, in its implementation, it turns out that the tender process is not carried out in accordance with statutory regulations.

In this work, there has actually been an initial tender carried out by the Working Group (Pokja) V until the winning company was determined. It's just that the proceeds from the tender were then canceled to be repeated, Pokja V was instead replaced with Pokja VII who was appointed to handle the project.

It is suspected that in the tender process there had been "conspiracy" or manipulation between the defendants, so the project was finally won by the company that was borrowed by the defendant Syaiful Abrar to other defendants.

The defendant Syaiful Abrar, who is a vocational school teacher, borrowed the company CV Global Innovation, CV Bunga Tridara, PT Indotek Sentral Karya, and CV Sikabaluan Jaya to participate in the tender.

As a result, the Public Prosecutor charged the defendants with committing acts of enriching themselves or other people or a corporation that caused state losses.

In the previous investigation process, one of the defendants, Syarifudin, had returned Rp60 million to the Prosecutor's Office as evidence.

The trial will continue on October 14, 2024 with the agenda of hearing the exception of the defendant against the prosecutor's indictment. On the other hand, in the inaugural trial a number of defendants through their attorneys applied for a suspension of detention to the Court.

Responding to this, the judge and Public Relations Officer of the Padang Court Juandra said that his party would study the request for a suspension of detention.

"The application will be examined and studied first, later the Chief Justice of the Court will decide whether (the application) is accepted or not," he said.