NTB Prosecutor's Office Names Former Lombok Plaza Director Suspect Of NCC Corruption

The prosecutor's office officers oversee the corruption suspect in the management of the provincial government's assets for the construction of the NCC with the initials DS (two right) who is the former Director of PT Lombok Plaza/ANTARA

West Nusa Tenggara High Prosecutor's Office investigators named the former Director of PT Lombok Plaza with the initials DS as a suspect in the alleged corruption case in the management of NTB Provincial Government assets for the construction of the NTB Convention Center (NCC).

"The suspect we have named in this case is DS engineer, former Director of PT Lombok Plaza who served from 2012 to 2016," Ely said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 7.

He explained that the determination of this suspect was a follow-up to being active in forced pick-up against DS today at his home in Bali.

"So, after we brought it forcibly and we carried out an examination as a witness followed by an examination as a suspect accompanied by his attorney," he said.

After the determination, the investigator based on the order of the Head of the NTB Attorney General's Office, Enen Saribanon, immediately detained DS by entrusting the person concerned at the Class II A Prison in West Lombok.

His party made this forced pick-up effort in accordance with the rules of Article 112 of the Criminal Procedure Code, namely that investigators properly summoned DS to undergo examination as witnesses.

"However, from the three appropriate summons in question, he never attended, so according to Article 112 of the Criminal Procedure Code, we forcibly picked up DS in Bali," he said.

The NTB Prosecutor's Office has determined the status of case handling to the investigation stage based on the issuance of an Investigation Order of the Head of the West Nusa Tenggara High Prosecutor's Office Number: PRINT-09/N.2/Fd.1/10/2024 dated October 2, 2024.

The increase in the status of handling this case after the prosecutor's office found that the mensrea had committed an unlawful act that resulted in indications of state financial losses.

Indications of state financial losses in this case arise from the cooperation process between the NTB Provincial Government and PT Lombok Plaza as the implementer of NCC development and management.

The NTB Provincial Government's assets in the form of an area of 31,963 square meters in collaboration with PT Lombok Plaza for the construction of the NCC aim to accommodate international standard convention activities.

Initially, the NTB Provincial Government collaborated on development and management with PT Indosinga Invetama Lombok.

In the draft PT Indosinga Invetama Lombok, the construction of the NCC building which occupies a government area of 3.2 hectares in Mataram City is worth IDR 384 billion.

The company based in Bali belongs to a foreign national from Singapore. The cooperation that was built used the Build On Operate Transfer (BOT) system or built managed and controlled for 30 years.

From the cooperation contract which was then signed by the Governor of NTB TGH Muhammad Zainul Majdi with the Director of PT Indosinga, the NTB Provincial Government will receive compensation of Rp12 billion.

However, after the agreement, the construction did not go according to the agreement. According to the news, the Director of PT Indosinga Lim Chong Siong died so that the cooperation did not continue.

Then, at the end of April 2013, the NTB Provincial Government announced the winner of the tender for the NCC development project worth Rp360 billion, namely PT Lombok Plaza based in Bali and Lombok.

PT Lombok Plaza beat its rival PT Blitz Property based in Jakarta. The two investors are part of eight investors undergoing "beauty counts" organized by the NTB Provincial Government in late 2012.

As the winner of the tender, PT Lombok Plaza took over the management of assets belonging to the NTB Provincial Government by tearing down the building that had previously been built by PT Indosinga. The buildings are the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Health Laboratory and offices.

Until now, it is known that the area is still in the form of vacant land. There are allegations of a cooperation project with PT Lombok Plaza stalled or not running according to the agreement.