Investigate Corruption Of The Deterrent Toll Road Built By PT Waskita, Lampung Prosecutor's Office Examines 47 Witnesses

Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the Lampung Attorney General's Office, Armen Wijaya (two from the left) is reading the results of an investigation related to corruption in the construction of the Terpeka Toll Road in Bandarlampung, Wednesday (16/3/2024). ANTARA/HO-Kejati Lampung

JAKARTA - The Lampung High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) conducted an examination of 47 witnesses related to the alleged corruption crime at the construction of the Terbanggi Besar-Pematang Panggang-Kayu Agung (Terpeka) Toll Road or STA 100+200 to STA 112+200 in the 2017-2019 fiscal year.

"The examination of them is related to the construction of the Terpeka Toll Road," said Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the Lampung Attorney General's Office, Armen Wijaya, in Bandarlampung, Wednesday, April 16, as reported by Antara.

Armen said investigators had collected other evidence such as evidence of letters and other documents.

It was revealed that the construction of this toll road was carried out by the V Division of PT Waskita Karya, Tbk. (BUMN) as the contractor.

It was also explained that the source of funding for the toll road construction came from PT Jasamarga's viaability gap fund (VGF) Jalan Layang Cikampek for the construction work of the Jakarta-Cikampek II Elevated Toll Road.

Armen said that the work was based on Contract Number 003/CONTRACT-DIR/JJC/IV/2017 dated April 5, 2017, between the Head of Division V of PT Waskita Karya as the implementing contractor and the President Director of PT JJC as the owner of the Pekaka Toll Road construction project.

It was also stated that the work contract value was Rp. 1,253,922,600,000.00 with a road length of 12 km.

The work is for 24 months, from April 5, 2017 to November 8, 2019. As for the provisional handover (PHO) or temporary handover, said Armen, on November 8, 2019, with a maintenance period (FHO) of 3 years.

There are allegations that the implementation of the work on the construction of the Terpeka Toll Road contained budget irregularities with the perpetrators of the project team at the 5th Division of PT Waskita Karya.

"The perpetrator made a fictitious financial responsibility for the implementation of the toll road construction work," he said.

The modus operandi, said Armen, is by engineering billing documents that seem to come from activities in the implementation of the Terpeka Toll Road construction.

"However, in reality the work is a job that never existed, even using the name of a fictitious vendor, and some use a vendor whose name is only borrowed," he said.

He said the creation of fictitious financial accountability by the project team at the request of the leadership of the 5th Division of PT Waskita Karya resulted in state financial losses of approximately Rp. 66 billion.

In the period from March 13, 2025, to this day, according to him, investigators in the Special Crimes Division of the Lampung High Prosecutor's Office have confiscated money in order to recover state losses with a total of Rp1,643,000,000.00.