Former Director General Of KA Prasetyo Boeditjahjono Suspect Of Corruption In The Medan Railway Project

Former Director General Of KA Prasetyo Boeditjahjono/ Photo: Antara

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named the former Director General of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation Prasetyo Boeditjahjono (PB) as a suspect in the alleged corruption case of the Besitang-Langsa railway construction project (KA) at the Medan Railway Engineering Center in 2017 2023.

"Based on sufficient evidence, today, after a marathon examination for 3 hours, investigators named PB as a suspect," said Director of Investigation at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the AGO Abdul Qohar, quoted from Antara, Sunday, November 3.

It was also explained that Prasetyo was initially arrested at a hotel in Sumedang, West Java, at 12.35 WIB because he was absent when he was summoned as a witness several times.

"Arrest by the Intelligence Team of the Indonesian Attorney General's Office who are members of the task force together with investigators at Jampidsus," he said.

Abdul Qohar said that in 2017 the Class 1 Medan Railway Engineering Center (BTP) carried out the construction of the Transsumatra railway, one of which was the construction of the Besitang-Langsa railway which connects North Sumatra Province and Aceh Province with a development budget of IDR 1.3 trillion sourced from State Sharia Securities (SBSN).

In carrying out the construction, Prasetyo as Director General of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation for the 2016 period, 2017 ordered the defendant Nur Setiawan Sidik (NSS) as the power user of the budget (KPA) to decompose the construction work into 11 packages and asked the NSS to win eight companies in the tender process or auction.

The chairman of the Goods and Services Procurement Working Group, namely the defendant Rieki Meidi Yuwana (RMY), at the request of the KPA, then conducted a construction auction without the completeness of the procurement technical documents that had received the approval of technical officials and the procurement qualification method contrary to regulations for the procurement of goods and services.

In this implementation, said Abdul Qohar, it was known that the construction of the Besitang-Langsa train road was not preceded by a feasibility study, there were no train track documents made by the Ministry of Transportation, as well as KPA commitment-making officials (PPK) and supervisory consultants deliberately moved the railway construction line that was not in accordance with the design and road documents so that the train line collapsed or decreased and could not be used.

From the implementation of the development, he continued, Prasetyo received a fee from the defendant Akhmad Afif Setiawan (AAS) as PPK of Rp. 1.2 billion and from PT WTJ of Rp. 1.4 billion.

"As a result of PB's actions, the train path cannot be used, the state loss is Rp. 1,157,087,853,322.00. This is based on the calculation of state losses carried out by BPKP," he said.

For his actions, Prasetyo was charged with Article 2 or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended in Law Number 20 of 2021 in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.

Previously, the AGO had named seven suspects on suspicion of corruption in the procurement project for the construction of the Besitang-Langsa railway line and currently the suspects are undergoing trial.

On Thursday, October 24, 2024, three defendants, namely former PPK Region I at the North Sumatra Region Railway Engineering Center Akhmad Afif Setiawan, former PPK Construction Work on the Besitang-Langsa Railroad Construction Work Halim Hartono, and former Head of the Infrastructure Section at the North Sumatra Regional Railway Engineering Center, Rieki Meidi Yuwana, were sentenced to 6 '8 years in prison.