The National Police Disbursed Corruption In The PLTU 1 West Kalimantan Project, Losing The State Rp1.35 Trillion

Head of Kortastipidkor Polri Inspector General Cahyono Wibowo (center)/ANTARA/Nadia Putri Rahmani

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortastipidkor) of the National Police revealed a case of alleged corruption in the construction project of the West Kalimantan 1 Steam Power Plant (PLTU) cost the state Rp1.35 trillion.

"The total state financial loss is IDR 1.35 trillion with the current exchange rate," said Head of Kortastipidkor Polri Inspector General Cahyono Wibowo as reported by ANTARA, Monday, October 6.

Cahyono said the total loss was a total loss, with details of 62,410,523.20 US dollars or equivalent to Rp1.03 trillion and Rp323,199,898,518.

The loss is based on the amount of money that has been spent by state-owned electricity companies to the private sector, namely KSO BRN, for the PLTU 1 West Kalimantan development project with an unresolved output capacity of 250 megawatts (MW).

"For his own contract, this is actually an EPCC, namely Engineering Procurement Construction Commissioning. This means that what is produced is the output. Because the output is unsuccessful, in the context of state financial losses, this is a total loss," he said.

The loss was determined by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) on July 22, 2025.

Meanwhile, the Director of Enforcement of Kortastipidkor Polri Brigadier General Totok Suharyanto revealed that investigators have named four suspects in this case, namely FM as the former director of a state-owned electricity company, HK as President Director of PT BRN, RR as President Director of PT BRN, and HYL as President Director of PT Praba Indopersada.

He explained that in this case, state-owned electricity companies in 2008 held an auction for the construction of the West Kalimantan PLTU 1 in Jungkat District, Mempawah Regency, West Kalimantan.

However, before the implementation, there was an agreement to win PT BRN.

In the auction, KSO BRN-Alton-OJSC has also been arranged to be passed and won even though it does not meet administrative and technical requirements.

"In addition, it is strongly suspected that the Alton-OJSC company is not members of the KSO formed and headed by PT BRN," said Totok.

Then, in 2009, before the signing of the contract, KSO BRN transferred all construction work to PT Praba Indopersada, including the control of the KSO BRN account, with an agreement to reward PT BRN.

Furthermore, suspect HYL was given the right to be the financial holder of KSO BRN.

"In this case, it is known that PT Praba also does not have the capacity to work on the PLTU project in West Kalimantan," said Totok.

Next, on June 11, 2009, the suspect FM as the director of the state-owned electricity company with suspect RR as the President Director of PT BRN signed a contract with a value of 80,848,341 US dollars and Rp507,424,168,000.00.

The contract's effective date starts December 28, 2009 with a term of completion until February 28, 2012.

At the end of the contract, KSO BRN and PT Praba Indopersada only completed 57 percent of the work. Until the 10th contract amendment ended on December 31, 2018, KSO BRN and PT Praba Indopersada were unable to complete the work or only reached 85.56 percent for reasons of financial inability.

"However, the fact is that the actual work has been stopped since 2016 with a work of 85.56 percent so that PT KSO BRN has received payments from state-owned electricity companies of Rp. 323 billion and US$62.4 million," he said.

Until now, the construction of the PLTU has not been completed and cannot be utilized so that the state experiences losses.