Six Defendants In The Antam Gold Corruption Case Sued 9 Years In Prison

Six defendants in the alleged corruption case of Antam's gold commodity management weighing 109 tons for the 2010 '2022 period in a trial reading the charges at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday (15/5/2025). (ANTARA/Agatha Olivia Victoria)

A total of six defendants in the alleged corruption case of Antam's gold commodity management weighing 109 tons for the 2010 '2022 period were sentenced to imprisonment for 9 years each and a fine of Rp. 750 million each with the condition that if not paid, it will be replaced (subsidiary) with imprisonment for 6 months.

"We demand that the defendants be proven legally and convincingly guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption together," said Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the Attorney General's Office, Syamsul Bahri Siregar, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, May 15.

The six defendants referred to, namely the Vice President (VP) of the Antam Precious Metal Processing and Purification Business Unit (UBPP LM) for the 2008 period "2011 Tutik Kustiningsih," VP UBPP LM Antam for the 2011 period 2013 Herman, and Secretary Executive VP UBPP LM Antam 2013 2017 Dodydayan.

Then, General Manager (GM) UBPP LM Antam for the 2017'2019 period Abdul Hadi Aviciena, GM UBPP LM Antam for the 2019'20 period Muhammad Abi Anwar, and GM UBPP LM Antam for the 2021'2022 period Iwan Dahlan.

Thus, the Public Prosecutor demanded that the six defendants be declared to have violated Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code, as the primary indictment.

Before filing the charges, the Public Prosecutor considered several aggravating and mitigating things to the defendants. This is burdensome, namely the actions of the defendants do not support the Government's program in eradicating corruption and resulting in public trust in Antam's gold products decreasing.

Another burdensome thing, namely the defendants knew about the washing gold activity with the same final product as the mixed cap product which had been stopped in 2017 by Antam, but continued to carry it out, as well as the actions of the six defendants resulted in state financial losses.

"Meanwhile, the mitigating factors considered are that the defendants have never been convicted," said the prosecutor.

In this case, six former Antam officials were charged with harming state finances amounting to Rp3.31 trillion because, among other things, they carried out gold washing cooperation and mixed gold stamps with third parties (organese, gold shops, or companies) non-contract works during the 2010 period 2022.

However, the cooperation carried out is allegedly not accompanied by an intelligence business study and an accurate study of potential opportunities, no legal and compliance or legal studies or compliance are carried out, no risk studies are carried out, and no approval from the Board of Directors.

The actions of six former Antam officials were carried out together with seven private defendants as customers of the gold smelting and services that were tried separately.

The seven defendants, namely Lindawati Efendi, Suryadi Lukmantara, Suryadi Jonathan, James Tamponawas, Ho Kioen Tjay, Djudju Tanuwidjaja, and Gluria Asih Rahayu.

For his actions, the six defendants were suspected of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.