KPK Alleges That The Trans Sumatra Toll Road Land Procurement Meeting Was Cheated, There Were Documents Changed To Dates

Illustration of the KPK building in Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta. (ANTARA-Fianda Sjofjan Rassat

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspects that there are meeting documents related to the land acquisition for the Trans Sumatra Toll Road in 2018-2020 which was deliberately changed to a date or made a back date. This fraud was investigated by investigators by examining four witnesses on Monday, September 15.

"Investigators are investigating related to the Land Procurement SOP, the Procurement Team Decree, the New Directors Meeting Risal, and then the date is made to backdate as if the stages were carried out before the payment and procurement were carried out," said KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo to reporters in a written statement, Thursday, September 18.

The four witnesses examined were Gatot Aries Purboyo, Arif Widodo Aji, Muhammad Asar, and Neneng Rahmawati. All of them are referred to as BUMN employees in the examination schedule.

Investigators have also explored other frauds in land acquisition around the toll road. One of them is collusion long before the process runs and is carried out through a short message application, namely WhatsApp.

The deepening was carried out by examining Slamet Budi Hartadji as a private party on Thursday, September 11.

Previously reported, the KPK has detained M. Rizal Sutjipto as the President Director of PT Hutama Karya today, August 6. He is a suspect in alleged corruption in land acquisition around the Trans Sumatra Toll Road (JTSS) for Fiscal Year 2018-2020.

Hutama Karya is the executor of the project. The detention was carried out after investigators examined him as a suspect.

In addition, the KPK also detained Bintang Perbowo, who is the Head of the Business and Investment Development Division who is also the Head of the Land Procurement Team.

In this case, the KPK also named two other suspects on behalf of Iskandar Zulkarnaen as the owner of PT Sanitindo Tangsel Jaya (STJ) and the STJ corporation.

Even so, Iskandar passed away on August 8, 2024. Thus, the investigation against him was then stopped.

This case began after Bintang was appointed President Director of PT Hutama Karya in April 2018. He is said to have immediately held a board of directors meeting, one of which decided to buy land around JTTS.

Furthermore, Bintang introduced his friend, Iskandar, to the company's board of directors to convey the ownership of the suspect Iskandar's land in Bakauheni.

Then, Bintang asked Iskandar to make a land offer to PT Hutama Karya. Bintang also asked Iskandar to seek land expansion by buying land from the surrounding community, so that later PT Hutama Karya can directly purchase land from Iskandar or PT STJ.

Then, in September 2018, PT Hutama Karya made phase I payments for Bakauheni land of around Rp. 24.6 billion. It's just that there are a number of irregularities.

Among them, PT Hutama Karya procured unplanned land in the 2018 Company Budget Work Plan (RKAP). The actions of these suspects then caused state losses of Rp205.14 billion based on the calculation of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).