Judges State That Tin Corruption Is Proven To Lose The State Rp300 Trillion

Judge of the Central Jakarta Corruption Court Sukartono (right) in the trial of the verdict of the alleged corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit (IUP) area of PT Timah/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The judge of the Central Jakarta Corruption Court, Sukartono, stated that the alleged corruption case in the management of tin commodity trading in the mining business permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk. 2015 2022 proved to be detrimental to the state amounting to Rp300 trillion.

"Illegal mining activities in the IUP (mining business permit) area of PT Timah Tbk in 2015 2022 resulted in state losses of Rp300,003,263,938,131.14 (300 trillion)," said Sukartono at the Jakarta Corruption Court. reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 11.

The losses, he said, were also caused by the actions of three former Head of the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) of Bangka Belitung Province, namely the Head of Energy and Mineral Resources for Bangka Belitung Province for the 2015 period 2019, Suranto Wibowo, Head of Energy and Mineral Resources for Bangka Belitung Province for the 2021 period 2024 Amir Syahbana, and Acting Head of Energy and Mineral Resources for Bangka Belitung Province for the period March to December 2019 Rusbani alias Bani.

"(They) did not carry out guidance and supervision properly," he said.

Sukartono said the five-smellary Work and Budget Plan (RKAB) and its affiliated company were used to cooperate with PT Timah to carry out mining at PT Timah IUP.

The five smelters in question are PT Refined Bangka Tin, CV Venus Inti Perkasa, PT Sarijuna Binasentosa, PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa along with PT Tinindo Internusa, each and its affiliated company.

As a result of the RKAB, mining by the private sector in the PT Timah IUP area became massive and caused ecological damage, environmental economic damage, and caused environmental recovery costs due to tin ore mining.

Sukartono explained that the cost of ecological losses was IDR 183.7 trillion, the cost of environmental economic losses was IDR 75.4 trillion, and the cost of environmental recovery was IDR 11.8 trillion. Thus, the total environmental loss was IDR 271.06 trillion

Furthermore, Sukartono explained that the loss of Rp271.06 trillion could also be divided based on the damaged area.

Sukartono divided it into two categories, namely environmental damage in non-forest areas with an area of around 95 thousand ha with a loss of Rp. 47.7 trillion; and environmental damage due to tin mines in forest areas with an area of around 75 thousand ha worth Rp. 223.3 trillion.

In the tin corruption case, the three defendants allegedly caused state losses of Rp. 300 trillion.

The loss included as much as Rp2.28 trillion in the form of losses for the cooperation activities of renting processed equipment (processing) logging with the private minister, Rp26.65 trillion in the form of losses due to tin seed payments to mining partners of PT Timah, and Rp271.06 trillion in the form of environmental losses.