The Government Immediately Claims 48 BLBI Obligors

Mahfud MD / DOK VOI

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD said that the government will immediately collect Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) obligors or debtors. The obligor received assistance in 1998 as an economic stimulus.

"The government disbursed funds for BLBI, for 48 obligors. So at that time. There were already those that were billed, some were paid off, and so on, we will inform the public. Who will be paid off," Mahfud said in a press conference. after the BLBI Task Force meeting in his office which was broadcast on YouTube, Kemenkopolhukam RI, Thursday, April 15.

Meanwhile, for BLBI obligors who are also controlling shareholders of Bank Dagang Nasional Indonesia (BDNI), Sjamsul Nursalim has two types of debt to be borne. Mahfud ensured that Sjamsul, who is now in Singapore, would be billed because the amount he borrowed was quite a lot.

"Sjamsul Nursalim has two types of debt, one is Dewaruci's bank and then there is BDNI. So it will be billed. So, Sjamsul Nursalim has entered into Bank Dewaruci and BDNI has. It will be collected," said the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK).

Mahfud detailed that the total assets that the government had succeeded in calculating in relation to this BLBI fund had exceeded IDR 110 trillion. Or if it is detailed as much as IDR 110,454,809,645,467.

Mahfud said that initially the calculation of BLBI obligor debt to the state had three versions, namely IDR 108 trillion, IDR 109 trillion and IDR 110 trillion. According to him, the latest calculation was strengthened by the explanation of the Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani regarding the details of the assets of the BLBI obligors that could be collected immediately.

"Earlier, the Minister of Finance (Sri Mulyani) had broadcast the money to be billed for credit assets, in the form of shares, in the form of property, in rupiah and in the form of savings, in the form of foreign money savings, and so on," he concluded.