KPK Suspects That The East Java KONI Will Get Pokmas Grant Funds From The APBD

KPK Director of Investigation Brigadier General Asep Guntur Rahayu. (Tsa Tsia-VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspects that the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) has received grant funds from community groups (pokmas) sourced from the 2019-2022 East Java Provincial Budget.

This was conveyed by the Director of Investigation of the KPK Asep Guntur Rahayu who explained that the grant funds were indeed handed over to members of the East Java DPRD as the main cost of thought (pokir).

However, the distribution did not comply with the rules because it was changed in the form of projects that were distributed to various parties. One of them, KONI East Java.

"This project is in several SKPDs. It is in education and others. There are also KONI and others," Asep told reporters at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, quoted Wednesday, April 23.

The arrangement of this project is then arranged in such a way as below Rp. 200 million. The goal is that direct appointments can be made without an auction and cut is carried out.

"The projects will then have their parts cut by 20 percent from there," he said.

This reason was then that investigators searched KONI's office to the house of the former DPD chairman who is also the former Deputy Chair of the East Java KONI La Nyalla Mattalitti. "Because he manages it, manages the money," explained Asep.

Even so, Asep did not specify the value of the project obtained by KONI East Java. He only said that it was members of the East Java DPRD who distributed the money to the institution, Kusnadi.

Previously reported, the KPK has named 21 new suspects in the alleged bribery of grant funds for community groups or pokmas from the East Java Provincial Budget for the 2019-2022 Fiscal Year. This effort is the development of the case that ensnared the former Deputy Chairperson of the East Java DPRD, Sahat Tua P. Simanjuntak.

Investigators in this case have searched the office of the East Java Provincial Government (Jatim) some time ago. As a result, documents and electronic goods have been confiscated regarding the alleged bribery case of grant funds.

Then, investigators also searched the house of former PDTT Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar on Friday, September 6, 2024. Investigators at that time then cash and several other evidences, such as documents and electronic evidence.

However, it did not specify how much was obtained from Abdul Halim's house in the South Jakarta area.