Police Endus Fire Bima Inspectorate Allegedly Related To Investigation Of Pajo's Regional Budget

Illustration of officers extinguishing fires. (Unsplash-Dominic Sostmann)

The Bima Police stated that they were still investigating the suspicion that the results of the investigation into the corruption case in the management of the Pajo Village Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBDes), Bima Regency, West Nusa Tenggara which was the cause of the burning of the Bima Inspectorate office in mid-August 2025.

Head of the Bima City Police Satreskrim AKP Dwi Kurniawan said that his party is still investigating this matter through the examination of a number of people suspected of being the perpetrators of the arson.

"So, later yes, we are still looking into it first," he said in a statement received in Mataram, Friday, which was confiscated by Antara.

The results of the investigative audit of the management of the Pajo APBDes for the 2022-2023 fiscal year have been confirmed by the Inspectorate of Bima Agus Salim.

Through a telephone line, Agus Salim explained that the implementation of the investigative audit referred to the request of the Bima District Attorney before the Bima Inspectorate office incident caught fire.

"So, at that time the prosecutor asked us to conduct an investigative audit. Thank God our investigative audit at the inspectorate has been completed and we have submitted the LHP (report of the examination results) to the prosecutor's office," said Agus Salim.

Regarding the nominal loss that emerged from the results of the investigative audit, he refused to provide information because the authority was with the prosecutor's office as the party requesting the inspectorate to conduct an investigative audit.

"For more details, the value of the loss is in the prosecutor, because that's the realm of the prosecutor's office that can be conveyed," he said.

Regarding the request for an audit of the investigation into the corruption case of the Pajo APBDes to the Bima Inspectorate, the Head of the Special Crimes Section of the Bima Catur Hidayat Putra Kejari was confirmed.

Catur Hidayat by telephone said that his party asked for an investigative audit of the government's internal surveillance apparatus (APIP) for the follow-up to reports of public complaints in mid-2025, before the Bima Inspectorate office incident caught fire.

"Yes, so there are complaints from the public, and we ask the inspectorate for an investigative audit. As a result, there was a figure of almost Rp900 million," he said.

Furthermore, Catur Hidayat emphasized that the burning incident at the Bima Inspectorate Office did not affect the legal steps that were taking place at the Bima Kejari.

"The process is still ongoing. We will underline it, this is still an investigative audit. Friends are still investigating, we are still discussing the team," he said.

The office, which is located in Penatoi Village, Mpunda District, Bima City, was reported to have caught fire on Thursday, August 7. In the early hours of the morning All rooms, office items and documents were reportedly burned down.